glad-hearted that he was even able to say some gentle and brotherly

things about Hugh. He dwelt a deal on the coming meeting at Hendon Hall;

what a surprise it would be to everybody, and what an outburst of

thanksgiving and delight there would be.

It was a fair region, dotted with cottages and orchards, and the road led

through broad pasture lands whose receding expanses, marked with gentle

elevations and depressions, suggested the swelling and subsiding

undulations of the sea. In the afternoon the returning prodigal made

constant deflections from his course to see if by ascending some hillock

he might not pierce the distance and catch a glimpse of his home. At

last he was successful, and cried out excitedly--

"There is the village, my Prince, and there is the Hall close by! You may

see the towers from here; and that wood there--that is my father's park.

Ah, NOW thou'lt know what state and grandeur be! A house with seventy

rooms--think of that!--and seven and twenty servants! A brave lodging

for such as we, is it not so? Come, let us speed--my impatience will not

brook further delay."

All possible hurry was made; still, it was after three o'clock before the

village was reached. The travellers scampered through it, Hendon's

tongue going all the time. "Here is the church--covered with the same

ivy--none gone, none added." "Yonder is the inn, the old Red Lion,--and

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