CHAPTER 48

'"But I did not know it was you. You arrived as soon as your letter, and you were so handsome—that you still are—and had a long yellow silk handkerchief round your neck, and a bran new hat on; oh, you were so dashing! Good heavens! What weather it was, and what a state the street was in!'

'And then we got married,' he said. Don't you remember? And then we had our first little boy, and then Mary, and Nicholas, and Peter, and Christian.

'Yes, and how they all grew up to be honest people, and were loved by everybody.'

'And their children also have children,' said the old sailor; 'yes, those are our grand-children, full of strength and vigor. It was, I think, about this season that we had our wedding.'

'"Yes, this very day is the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage,' said old Granny, sticking her head between the two old people; who thought it was their neighbor who nodded to them. They looked at each other and held one another by the hand.

soon after came their children, and their grand