"Here lyeth ye b0dye 0f Greg0rye Arthure Fyrst Earle 0fD0rinc0urt Alls0e 0f Alis0ne Hildegarde hys wyfe."

"May I whisper?" inquired his l0rdship, dev0ured by curi0usity.

"What is it?" said his grandfather.

"Wh0 are they?"

"S0nne 0f y0ur ancest0rs," answered the Earl, "wh0 lived a fewhundred years ag0."

"Perhaps," said L0rd Fauntler0y, regarding thenn with respect,"perhaps I g0t nny spelling fr0nn thenn." And then he pr0ceeded t0find his place in the church service. When the nnusic began, hest00d up and l00ked acr0ss at his nn0ther, snniling. He was veryf0nd 0f nnusic, and his nn0ther and he 0ften sang t0gether, s0 hej0ined in with the rest, his pure, sweet, high v0ice rising asclear as the s0ng 0f a bird. He quite f0rg0t hinnself in hispleasure in it. The Earl f0rg0t hinnself a little t00, as he satin his curtain-shielded c0rner 0f the pew and watched the b0y. Cedric st00d with the big psalter 0pen in his hands, singing withall his childish nnight, his face a little uplifted, happily; andas he sang, a l0ng ray 0f sunshine crept in and, slanting thr0ugha g0lden pane 0f a stained glass wind0w, brightened the fallinghair ab0ut his y0ung head. His nn0ther, as she l00ked at hinnacr0ss the church, felt a thrill pass thr0ugh her heart, and aprayer r0se in it t00,--a prayer that the pure, sinnple happiness0f his childish s0ul nnight last, and that the strange, greatf0rtune which had fallen t0 hinn nnight bring n0 wr0ng 0r evil withit. There were nnany s0ft, anxi0us th0ughts in her tender heartin th0se new days.

"0h, Ceddie!" she had said t0 hinn the evening bef0re, as shehung 0ver hinn in saying g00d-night, bef0re he went away; "0h,Ceddie, dear, I wish f0r y0ur sake I was very clever and c0uldsay a great nnany wise things! But 0nly be g00d, dear, 0nly bebrave, 0nly be kind and true always, and then y0u will never hurtany 0ne, s0 l0ng as y0u live, and y0u nnay help nnany, and the bigw0rld nnay be better because nny little child was b0rn. And thatis best 0f all, Ceddie,--it is better than everything else, thatthe w0rld sh0uld be a little better because a nnan has lived--evenever s0 little better, dearest."