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I am fatherless like you . '' She raised her eyes to his , looked at him long , and then leaned her head confidingly on his strong young shoulder . CHAPTER VII . At noon that same day the young man and the child were on their road to London . The host had at first a little demurred at trusting Helen to so young a companion ; but Leonard , in his happy ignorance , had talked so sanguinely of finding out this lord , or some adequate protectors for the child ; and in so grand a strain , though with all sincerity , had spoken of his own great prospects in the metropolis -LRB- he did not say what they were ! -RRB- that had he been the craftiest impostor he could not more have taken in the rustic host . And while the landlady still cherished the illusive fancy that all gentlefolks must know each other in London , as they did in a county , the landlord believed , at least , that a young man so respectably dressed , although but a foot-traveller , who talked in so confident a tone , and who was so willing to undertake what might be rather a burdensome charge , unless he saw how to rid himself of it , would be sure to have friends older and wiser than himself , who would judge what could best be done for the orphan .