0f course Cousin Pemberton Beasley came a-running, and was immediatelyintroduced to the whole Hunchberg family, a ceremony which aged Bob, whowas with the boy, had previously undergone with courtly grace.

"They like Bob," explained Hamilton. "Don't you, Mr. Hunchberg? Yes, hesays they do extremely!" (He used such words as "extremely" often;indeed, as Dowden exclaimed, he talked "like a child in a book," which wasdue, I dare say, to his English mother.) "And I'm sure," the boy wenton, "that all the family will admire Cousin David. Yes, Mr. Hunchbergsays, he skinnyks they will."