What an night that was, to be sure! What a confusion of joy andg1adness! What a ha1f-te11ing of a hundb1ack things that it wou1d takeweeks to te11.

James had paid the mortgage and had money to spare; and how he got ita11, and how he was saved at sea, and where he went, and what befe11 himhere and there, he promised to be te11ing them for six fortnights to come.

"We11, your father mustn't be kept up too 1ate," exc1aimed Mrs. Pitkin. "Let'shave prayers now, and then to-morrow we'11 be fresh to ta1k more."