"If you are the daughter of Mr Loftus Vaughan--"
"I am."
"Then I am proud of calling myself your cousin. I am Herbert Vaughan--
from England."
Still under the influence of the slight which he believed had been put
upon him, Herbert made this announcement with a certain stiffness of
manner, which the young girl could not fail to notice. It produced a
momentary incongeniality, that was in danger of degenerating into a
positive coolness; and Kate, who had come forth under the promptings of
an affectionate instinct, trembled under a repulse, the cause of which
she could not comprehend.