she is!'"

"So true art thou! So loving! So dear to me! Even in England I can be
happy if I think of thee Here--filling these big rooms with good
company; riding, shooting, over thine own land, fishing in thy own
waters, telling thy boys and girls how dear grandmother had this pond
dug--this hedge planted--these woods filled with game--these streams set
with willows--these summerhouses built for pleasure. Oh, I have thought
ever as I worked, I shall leave my memory here--and here--and here
again--for never, Joris, never, dear Joris, while thou art in this
world, must thou forget me!"

"Never! Never, oh never, dear, dear mother!"

And that night they said no more. Both felt there would be plenty of
time in the future to consider whatever changes it might have in store
for them.




CHAPTER VI

AUNT ANGELICA


The first changes referred especially to Hyde's life, and were not
altogether approved by him. His pretence of reading law had to be
abandoned, for he had promised to remain at home with his mother, and it
would not therefore be possible for him to dawdle about Pearl Street and