“Don’t speak of it, Miss Hetty; don’t speak of it,” said the old clergyman. “If you think I know so little of the world as to believe that the claims of pure justice, as you call it, could ever stand against the claims of the Squire’s cousin-- But your father is a good man, and you and your mother have been the saving of the Prescotts, and I don’t grudge it, though perhaps it is a little hard upon me.” Everything that is good for one is a little hard perhaps for some one else--or almost everything. Mary thinks sometimes that it is a little hard upon Mrs. Rotherham, once Prescott, to be deprived of her only child; but then, when a woman cannot put up with a dull husband, which is so much less a matter than many other matrimonial burdens, what can she expect? And on the whole, no doubt everything is for the best. _Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury._ End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Cousin Mary, by Mrs. Margaret Oliphant