with him.

"Is he an eloquent preacher, my dear?" But Amelia had never heard him
preach. "I suppose there will be plenty for you to do in your new home."

"I don't mean to be put upon, if you mean that, uncle."

"But five children!"

"There is a servant who looks after them. Of course I shall have to see
to Mr. Matterson's own things, but I have told him I cannot slave for
them all. The three eldest have to be sent somewhere; that has been
agreed upon. He has got an unmarried sister who can quite afford to do
as much as that." Then she explained her reasons for the marriage. "Papa
is getting quite unbearable, and Sophy spoils him in everything."

Poor Mr. Grey, when his niece turned and went back home, thought that,
as far as the girl was concerned, or her future household, there would
be very little room for employment for him. Mr. Matterson wanted an
upper servant who instead of demanding wages, would bring a little money
with her, and he could not but feel that the poor clergyman would find
that he had taken into his house a bad and expensive upper servant.

"Never mind, papa," said Dolly, "we will go on and persevere, and if we
intend to do good, good will come of it."

CHAPTER LXIII.

THE LAST OF AUGUSTUS SCARBOROUGH.

When old Mr. Scarborough was dead, and had been for a while buried,
Augustus made his application in form to Messrs. Grey & Barry. He made
it through his own attorney, and had now received Mr. Barry's answer
through the same attorney. The nature of the application had been in
this wise: that Mr. Augustus Scarborough had been put in to the position
of the eldest son; that he did not himself in the least doubt that such
was his true position; that close inquiry had been made at the time, and
that the lawyers, including Mr. Grey and Mr. Barry had assented to the
statements as then made by old Mr. Scarborough; that he himself had then
gone to work to pay his brother's debts, for the honor of the family,
and had paid them partly out of his own immediate pocket, and partly out
of the estate, which was the same as his own property; that during his
brother's "abeyance" he had assisted in his maintenance, and, on his
brother's return, had taken him to his own home; that then his father
had died, and that this incredible new story had been told. Mr. Augustus
Scarborough was in no way desirous of animadverting on his father's
memory, but was forced to repeat his belief that he was his father's