do not know why, there seemed to me to be something about the old

couple that attracts my heart! How homely, how patriarchal, it must

have been in the old mansion, where the mistress sat at the

spinning-wheel with her maids, while her husband read aloud out of the

"They must have been excellent, sensible people," said the

pastor's son. And with this the conversation turned naturally to

noblemen and commoners; from the manner in which the tutor spoke about

the significance of being noble, it seemed almost as if he did not