Wooers and Winners - Or, Under the Scars; A Yorkshire Story #244421

His was a brief holiday, little more than a week. It did not include Christmas, but it gladdened other hearts besides his own. People in those days were not holiday-mad they had scarcely begun to live and travel at railway speed, and his visit comprehended the charge of Miss Metcalfe on her final journey home; a charge the importance of which had been doubly impressed upon him.