THE

CORNHILL MAGAZINE.

FEBRUARY, 1877.

Erema; or, My Father's Sin.

CHAPTER XVII.

HARD AND SOFT.

EFORE very long it was manifest enough that Mr. Gundry looked down upon Miss Sylvester with a large contempt. But while this raised my opinion of his judgment, it almost deprived me of a great relief, the relief of supposing that he wished his grandson to marry this Pennsylvania. For although her father, with his pigs and cattle, and a low sort of hostelry which he kept, could settle "a good pile of dollars" upon her, and had kept her at the "learnedest ladies' college" even in San Fran

cisco, till he himself trembled at her erudition, still it was scarcely to be believed that a man of the Sawyer's strong common sense, and disregard of finery, would ever accept for his grandchild a girl made affectation, vulgarity, and conceit. And one day quite in the early VOL. XXXV.-NO. 206.

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