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"Which is a rib, I believe," observed Sir Norhtfully "And

that accounts, I dare say, for their being of such a crooked and

cantankerous nature They're a wonderful race women are; and for what

Inscrutable reason it has pleased Providence to create theht to a sudden end this little touch of

, and a wrinkled old porter thrust out a very withered and

unlovely face

"La Masque at ho in, without ceremony

The old man nodded, and pointed up stairs; and with a "This way,

Kingsley," Orhtly up, three at a time, followed in the

same style by Sir Norman

"You seeitude of this

place," observed that young gentleman, as they passed into a rooht to be; I've been here often enough," said Or-roo of bones who let us in has gone to announce us"

Sir Norlanced curiously round the rooh, with a floor of polished black oak,

slippery as ice, and shining like glass; a few old Flee, round table in the centre of the floor, on which

lay a pair of the old e,

curtainless ith minute diaolden and criht