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La, I did not look out of the coach windows all the way, except when we stopp'd at the turnpike; and I'm sure it is a little tiled house with a gate by the side of it, just like the one near our own entry; only that our's has got a pear-tree on the wall, and it has got some dried turf piled up by the door, with a part of an old wheelbarrow.

Well, you'll have more observation by and by, I hope.

I am happy in the honour of seeing your ladyship and these fair ladies.

And we reckon ourselves particularly fortunate in meeting with you, Sir John; you are very good indeed to give up so much of your own accommodation to poor storm-bound travellers. Allow me to present my nieces to you. (After presenting her nieces.) It is a long time since we met, Sir John, you were then a mere lad, and I was not myself a very old woman.

I remember perfectly the last time I had the