anything about the two Napoleons. Now we seem to have breathed in such
things. Why! I remember being made into Astyanax for a very unwilling
Andromache (poor Eleanor) for caress, and being told to shudder at the
bright copper coal-scuttle, before Harry went to school.'

'Of course poor Maurice could not cultivate his child. Yet, after all,
we grew up without a mother; but then the dear old Baron lived among
us, and knew what we were doing, instead of shutting us up in a
schoolroom with some one, with only knowledge, not culture. Those very
late dinners have quite upset all the intelligent intercourse between
fathers and children not come out.'

'Yes, Jasper and I have felt that difficulty. But after all, Jenny,
when I look back, I cannot say I think ours was a model bringing up.
What a strange year that was after Eleanor's marriage!'

'Ah! you felt responsible and were too young for it, but to me it was
a very jolly time, though I suppose I was an ingredient in your
troubles. Yes, we brought ourselves up; but I maintain that it was
better alternative than being drilled so hard as never to think of
anything but arrant idling out of lesson-time.'

'Lessons should be lessons, and play, play, is one of the professor's
maxims to which that poor child has treated us.'

'Ah! on that system, where would have been all your grand heraldic
pedigrees? I've got them still.'

'Oh! Jenny, you good old Brownie, have you? How I should like to look
at them again and show them the Gillian and Mysie. Do you remember the