CHAPTER XVI.
LITTLE MR. BOUNCER FORMS THE ACQUAINTANCE OF DR. DUSTACRE.
THEIR way from the Poynton Station to the Woodlands, Mr. Smalls had given some particulars of his family to the friend who was going to be his father's guest, but who, as yet, had only known him at Brazenface as a College friend. His mother was dead; his elder brother was in the army; a younger one was in the merchant service; his eldest sister was married; his younger sister and two younger brothers were at school, and would not be at home for some weeks to come. Except his father and the servants, the only other inmate of the house, at that time, was a cousin—a son of the Squire's sister—Thomas Winstanley by name, who had been early left an orphan, and had been adopted by his uncle, who had
