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the end, the happy couple jolted away in the caravan to spend their
honeymoon in a country excursion; and the single gentleman and
Kit's mother stood ruefully before their carriage-door.
'
Where shall we drive you, sir?' said the post-boy.
'You may drive me,' said the single gentleman, 'to the - ' He was not
going to add 'inn,' but he added it for the sake of Kit's mother; and to
the inn they went.
Rumours had already got abroad that the little girl who used to show
the wax-work, was the child of great people who had been stolen from
her parents in infancy, and had only just been traced. Opinion was
divided whether she was the daughter of a prince, a duke, an earl, a
viscount, or a baron, but all agreed upon the main fact, and that the
single gentleman was her father; and all bent forward to catch a
glimpse, though it were only of the tip of his noble nose, as he rode
away, desponding, in his four-horse chaise.
What would he have given to know, and what sorrow would have been
saved if he had only known, that at that moment both child and
grandfather were seated in the old church porch, patiently awaiting
the schoolmaster's return!
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