The Hidden Children by Robert William Chambers Chapter 21 Page 18

Point without any accident or mischance of any description, and, indeed, not encountering one living creature between Catharines-town and this post.

“My beloved mother desires her particular and tender remembrances to be conveyed to you, her honoured son-in-law to be, and further commands that I express to you, as befittingly as I know how, her deep and ever-living gratitude and thanks for your past conduct in regard to me, and your present and noble-minded generosity concerning the dispositions you have made for us to remain under the amiable protection of Mr. Hake in Albany.

“Dear lad, what can I say for myself? You are so glorious, so wonderful — and in you it does seem that all the virtues, graces, and accomplishments are so perfectly embodied, that at moments,