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CROTCHET CASTLE.
THE STRANGER.
I beg your pardon, sir: do I understand this place to be your property?
THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.
It is not mine, sir: the more is the pity; yet is it so far well, that the owner is my good friend, and a highly respectable gentleman.
THE STRANGER.
Good and respectable, sir, I take it, mean rich?
THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.
That is their meaning, sir.
THE STRANGER.
I understand the owner to be a Mr. Crotchet. He has a handsome daughter, I am told.
THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.
He has, sir. Her eyes are like the fish-
