You can sit with us. I heard the dogs howl in the moonlight night; It was the exact kind of abode that I had been looking after for weeks, for I was in that condition of mind when absolute renunciation of society was a necessity. “Get up, our Anna dear, from the weary spinning wheel; You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I dare say you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from. The only ghost I ever sawWas dressed in mechlin, — so; WHEN, through the death of a distant relative, I, John Lester, succeeded to the Martingdale Estate, there could not have been found in the length and breadth of England a happier pair than myself and my only sister Clare. With a cup of tea and your favorite cat.