356 THE HOME OF A NATURALIST. 



She even rejoiced that Orgert would be again the best 

 house in Sweena, although it no longer belonged to its 

 old owners. Thus a great portion of the bitterness 

 was in a measure taken out of her trouble, and she 

 went on with her indoor task of making way for the 

 new order with less suffering than at first. 



Mr. Nemo knew very well how she was employed 

 during those days, and did not fail to evince much 

 sympathy with her, and though the sharpness of her 

 pain had passed away, she was glad of his sympathy. 

 Soon Miss Ingath found herself talking almost con- 

 fidentially with the new laird about her family history, 

 and those relics which were daily being consigned to 

 the dust to which their owners had returned lang syne. 



Said Mr. Nemo on one occasion, " I can quite enter 

 into your sentiments, although I never had a family 

 tree to boast of, or a foot of land to call my own, until 

 I bought this place ; " and then he went on to tell how 

 he had risen step by step from a very low position in 

 society, how he had educated himself, and made a 

 fortune by sheer strength of hand and brain. 



Looking at him as he spoke, Miss Ingath could not 



help saying what she honestly felt at that moment, 



that the man who achieves such success for himself is 



surely a man to be revered and trusted, as much as 



the one who sits down in his father's chair and eats 



the bread 



" Whicli was never won 

 By toil of his from the rising sun." 



The lady said that in all honesty, but if you had 



