So it was that the assembly which had risen to greet Mr. But it was not of the gay world as were the three whom it welcomed. Therefore it stood slightly in awe of the wit and manners and fine feathers, curled newest fashion, of its sometime friends and neighbors, and its welcome, if warm at heart, was stiff as cloth of gold with ceremony. The Colonel took matters into his own capable hands. Jaquelin, I wish that my tobacco at Westover may look as finely a fortnight down iv part i as does yours to-day. There promise to be more Frenchmen in my fields than Germans at Down iv part i. Gary, if I come to Denbigh when the peaches are ripe, will you teach me to make persico. Allen, I hear that you breed cocks as courageous as those of Tanagra.