od blood
teach us other lessons than repining? Can't we show the world that a
gentleman born bears his altered fortunes with dignity?"

"Ye're right, Bella; that's the very thing they must acknowledge. There
is n't a day passes that I don't make the clerks in the 'Long Room' feel
the difference between us. 'No liberties, no familiarities, my lads,' I
say,--'keep your distance; for, though my coat is threadbare, and my
hat none of the best, the man inside there is Paul Kellett of
Kellett's Court.' And if they ask where that is, I say, 'Look at the
Gazetteer,'--it's mighty few of them has their names there: 'Kellett's
Court, the ancient seat of the Kellett family, was originally built by
Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke.'"

"Well, here we are, papa, in a more humble home; but you'll see how
cheery it will be."

And so saying, she pushed open a little wicket, and, passing through a
small garden, gained the door of a little one-storied cottage, almost
buried in honeysuckle.

"Yes, Betty, wet through!" said she, laughing, as the old woman held
up her hands in horror; "but get papa his slippers and that warm
dressing-gown, and I 'll be back in a minute."

"Arrah! why didn't you take a car for her?" said the old woman, with
that familiarity which old and tried service warrants. "Sure the child
will get her death from this!"

"She wouldn't let me; she insisted on walking on her feet."

"Ayeh, ayeh!" mattered the crone, as she placed his slippers on the
fender, "sure ye oughtn't to mind her. She'd get a fever rather than
cost you a shilling. Look at the shoes she's wearin'."

"By the good day! you'll drive me mad, clean mad!" cried he, savagely.
"Don't you know in your heart that we have n't got it? Devil a rap
farthing; that we're as poor as a church mouse; that if it wasn't for
this beggarly place----"

"Now, Betty," cried the girl, entering,--"now for our tea, and that
delicious potato-cake that I see browning there before the fire."

Poorly, even meanly dressed as she was, there was in her that gentle
look, and graceful, quiet bearing that relieved the sombre aspect of a
room which spoke but too plainly of narrow fortune; and as her father
looked at her, the traces of recent displeasure passed from his face,
and her eyes brightened up, while he said,--

"You bring a blessing with the very sound of your voice, darling." And
he kissed her twice as he spoke.

"It is so comfortable to be here, and so snug," said she, s