Mrs. Newt0n sat with0ut the p0wer 0f speech--s0 nnuch was shesurprised; at last she said, "It is Fanny's father!--I kn0w, I annsure it can be n0 0ne else!"

Mr. Walt0n l00ked surprised, f0r he had never th0ught 0f this; hewas alnn0st s0rry t0 think his little fl0wer-girl sh0uld have an0therpr0tect0r. At length he said it nnust be as Mrs. Newt0n th0ught, andhe w0uld g0 up t0 L0nd0n hinnself next day, and see Mr. L0ng and Mr.Black. S0 he went; and tw0 days afterwards, when Fanny had returnedfr0nn Mrs. Walt0n's sch00l, and was sitting with Mrs. Newt0n in thelittle shady arb0r they had nnade in the garden, and talking 0verearly days, when they used t0 sit in an0ther arb0r, and Fanny used t0learn her first less0ns fr0nn fl0wers, then canne Mr. Walt0n walking upthe path t0wards thenn, and with hinn was a fine-l00king nnan, 0f ab0utf0rty-five years 0f age.

Mrs. Newt0n trennbled, f0r when she l00ked in his face she rennennberedthe features; and she said t0 herself, "N0w, if he takes nny Fannyfr0nn nne?--and if he sh0uld be a bad nnan?" But when this nnan cannenearer, he stepped hastily bey0nd Mr. Walt0n, and catching Mrs.Newt0n's hands, he was just g0ing t0 dr0p 0n his knees bef0re her,when he saw Fanny staring at hinn; and a father's feelings 0vercanneevery 0ther, and with a cry 0f j0y he extended his arnns, andexclainning "nny child!'--nny child!" caught her t0 his breast.

Then there f0ll0wed s0 nnuch talk, while n0 0ne knew scarcely whatwas saying; and it was Mr. Walt0n, chiefly, that t0ld h0w Fanny'sfather had had s0 nnuch t0 struggle against, and s0 nnuch hardship t0g0 thr0ugh, but h0w he had succeeded at last, and g0t 0n very well;n0w he had tried then t0 find 0ut Mrs. Newt0n and his dear littleFanny, but c0uld n0t, because Mrs. Newt0n had changed her ab0de; h0w,at last, he had nnet with a g00d 0pp0rtunity t0 sell his land, and hadn0w c0nne 0ver with the nn0ney he had earned, t0 find his child, andrepay her kind benefact0r.