“Miss Inglett, I will say no more. I thought you more sympathetic with the aspirations of the despised and down-trodden, with the movement of ideas in the present century.” “I am sympathetic,” said Arminell. “But I am as bewildered now as I was this morning. I am just as one who has been spun through the spiral tunnel on the St. Gothard line, when one rushes forth into day; you know neither in which direction you are going, nor to what level you are brought. I dislike your similitude of a silo, and so have a right to criticise it.” “Arminell,” said Jingles, standing still. “Mr. Saltren!” The girl reared herself haughtily, and spoke with icy coldness. “Exactly,” laughed the tutor, bitterly. “I thought as much! You will not allow the presumed son of a manganese captain, the humble tutor, to presume an approach of familiarity to the honourable the daughter of a peer.” “I allow no one to presume,” said she, haughtily, and turned her back on him, and resumed her walk. “Yet I have a right,” pursued Jingles, striding after her. “Miss Inglett—Arminell listen to me. I am not the man to presume. I know and am made to feel too sharply my inferiority to desire to take a liberty. But I have a right, and I stand on my right. I have a right to call you by your Christian name, a right which you will acknowledge. I am your brother.” Arminell halted, turned and looked at him from head to foot with surprise mingled with disdain. “You doubt my words,” he went on. “I am not offended—I am not surprised at that; indeed, I expected it. But what I say is true. We have different mothers, mine”—with bitterness—“of the people, that I allow—of the people, of the common, base lot, who are dirt under your feet; yours is of the aristocracy, made much of, received in society, in the magic circle from which mine would be shut out. But we have one father; I stand to you in precisely the same relation as does the boy Giles, but I am your elder brother, and should be your adviser and closest friend.” END OF VOLUME I. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ -------------- S. BARING GOULD, M.A. -------------- =HISTORIC ODDITIES AND STRANGE EVENTS.= Demy 8vo, 10s. 6d. [Now Ready. “Striking into the dark side-paths of history, we have a collection of exciting and entertaining chapters. The volume is delightful reading.”—_Times._ “The entire contents are stimulating and delightful.”—_Notes and Queries._ =OLD COUNTRY LIFE.= With numerous Illustrations and Initial Letters by W. PARKINSON, F. D. BEDFORD, and F. MASEY. Large Crown 8vo, 10s. 6d. A limited number of copies on large paper will also be printed.