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"Yes,my nose, which had been

smitten by the door

She made no answer, but stood, a basilisk in an, "to ask you----"

"And ti to ask you----"

"And time you did, my dear Mrs Daniver--I have missed you so much,

these several days So I just called to ask for your health"

"You need not trouble about ive you ia Neuralgia is so

fierce, in a , my dear

Mrs Daniver"

"Don't 'dear Mrs Daniver' me! I'm not your dear Mrs Daniver at all"

"Then whose dear Mrs Daniver are you, my dear Mrs Daniver?" I

rejoined most impudently

"If the poor dear Ad, "you should

repent those words!"

"I wish the poor dear Admiral were here," said I "I should like to

ask an abler sailor as it is, and the holding ground none too good for an anchor

I thought it just as well to come and tell you to prepare for the

worst"