The Legal Evolution of an Agriculturist 85 



their doings, which she had heard something of through Maud, 

 and which kept Fanny and himself so busily engaged at the 

 Farm, that they were forgetting their old friends. John, for- 

 getting his reserve, became almost eloquent in telling of the 

 many things he had been doing, and which so interested him 

 that he never found an idle moment or time to grow weary of 

 rural life, though sometimes, perhaps, looking up expressively, 

 "he might feel lonely." 



The young woman's beaming face told him she understood; 

 but she only said: 



"How lovely it must be to have so much to employ and 

 interest one and to enjoy real life in the country, instead of the 

 vapid artificialities they had to endure in the whirl of city 

 society. " 



More than once they met during the holidays, and before 

 John returned Miss Morrison had promised to pay Fanny a 

 visit when they should be settled in their new home and had the 

 house-warming. 



