attached to this tree." And now she told him all that we already

know about the tree- the old mansion, the pedlar and the goose-girl

who had met there for the first time, and had become the ancestors

of the noble family to which the young lady belonged.

"They did not like to be knighted, the good old people," she said;

"their motto was 'everything in the right place,' and it would not

be right, they thought, to purchase a title for money. My grandfather,

the first baron, was their son. They say he was a very learned man,