"Nature has done more, Edward. I never thought that they would have grown into such lovely girls as they have, although I always thought that they were handsome."
As they passed, Edward caught the eye of Edith, and smiled.
"Alice, that's Edward!" said Edith, so loud, as to be heard by the king, and all near him.
Alice and Edith rose and waved their handkerchiefs, but they were soon obliged to cease, and put them to their eyes.
"Are those your sisters, Edward?" said the king.
"They are, your majesty."
The king rose in his stirrups, and made a low obeisance to the window where they were standing.
"We shall have some court beauties, Beverley," said the king, looking at him over his shoulder.
As soon as the ceremonies were over, and they could escape from their personal attentions, Edward and his two friends went to the house in which resided the Ladies Conynghame and his sisters.
We pass over the joy of this meeting after so many years' absence, and the pleasure which it gave to Edward to find his sisters grown such accomplished and elegant young women. That his two friends, who were, as the reader will recollect, old acquaintances of Alice and Edith, were warmly received, we hardly need say.