"Has she other sons with her?"
"Not another so old as myself."
"It's pretty hard on her, aint it, to have her two eldest go off?"
"Where have you been these three years?" put in Uncle
Forriner.
"At Shagarack, sir."
"Ah! — Brother Landholm is bringing up all his sons to be civilians, it seems."
Winthrop was not very clear what his questioner meant; but as it was probable Mr. Forriner himself was in the same condition of darkness, he refrained from asking.
"What's at Shagarack?" said Mrs. Forriner.
"A College, my dear."
"College! — Have you just come to the city, cousin?"