Wives and Daughters: An Every-Day Story - Page 543/572

She was sent home in the carriage, loaded with true thanks from every

one of the family. Osborne ransacked the greenhouses for flowers for

her; Roger had chosen her out books of every kind. The Squire himself

kept shaking her hand, without being able to speak his gratitude,

till at last he took her in his arms, and kissed her as he would have

done a daughter.