son as quietly and mechanically as though my restoration to home and kindred were a thing that had happened regularly in his presence every day since his birth. He ushered me into a grand haU, but no mat supported the impatient feet of the dignified master of the house. "Ah!" said I, "even this, perhaps, were Bcarcely etiquette. No doubt he stands chafing on the drawing-room hearth-rug, and I have little enough time to make myself pre- j