"
"You are right in your conjecture," replied the youth; "the person of
whom you speak was indeed a near relative of mine--he was no other than
my father."
"There, now--I could have said as much, for you look for all the world
as if you had come out of his own mouth. There is a trick of the eye
which I never saw in any but you two; and even if you had not told me
your name, I should have made pretty much the same calculation about
you. The old 'squire, if I rightly recollect, was something stiff in his
way, and some people did say he was proud, and carried himself rather
high; but, for my part, I never saw any difference 'twixt him and most
of our Carolina gentlemen, who, you know, generally walk pretty high in
the collar, and have no two ways about them. For that matter, however, I
couldn't well judge then; I may have been something too young to say,
for certain, what was what, at that time of my life."
"You are not even now so far advanced in years, Mr. Forrester, that you
speak of your youth as of a season so very remote.
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