untravelled still returns to thee.'--GOLDSMITH.

To go abroad! Such had been the fairy castle of Nuttie's life. She
had dreamed of Swiss mountains, Italian pictures, Rheinland castles, a
perpetual panorama of delight, and here she was in one of the great
hotels of Paris, as little likely to see the lions of that city as she
had been to see those of London.

The party were halting for two days there because the dentist, on whom
Mr. Egremont's fine show of teeth depended, practised there; but Nuttie
spent great part of the day alone in the sitting-room, and her hand-bag
and her mother's, with all their books and little comforts, had been
lost in the agony of landing. Her mother's attendance was required all
the morning, or what was worse, she expected that it would be, and
though Nuttie's persistence dragged out the staid, silent English maid,
who had never been abroad before, to walk in the Tuilleries gardens,
which they could see from their windows, both felt half-scared the
whole time. Nuttie was quite unused to finding her own way
unprotected, and Martin was frightened, cross, and miserable about the
bags, which, she averred, had been left by Gregorio's fault. She so
hated Gregorio that only a sort of adoration which she entertained for
Mrs. Egremont would have induced her to come tete-a-tete with him, and
perhaps he was visiting his disappointment about Mentone on her. In
the afternoon nothing was achieved but a drive in the Bois de Boulogne,
when it was at once made evident that Mr. Egremont would tolerate no
questions nor exclamations.

His mouth was in no condition for eating in public, and he therefore
decreed that his wife and daughter should dine at the table d'hote,
while he was served alone by Gregorio. This was a great boon to
Nuttie, and to her mother it recalled bridal days long past at Dieppe;
but what was their astonishment when on entering the room they beheld
the familiar face of Mr. Dutton! It was possible for him to place
himself between them, and there is no describing the sense of rest and
protection his presence imparted to them, more especially to Nuttie.

He had come over, as he did from time to time, on business connected
with the materials he used, and he was beguiled into telling them of
his views of Mark, whom he had put in the way of learning the
preliminaries needful to an accountant. He had a deep distrust of the
business capacities and perseverance of young gentlemen of f