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"You are very kind, but pray do not call me madame Say Leoline!"

"A thousand thanks, dear Leoline!" exclai her

hand to his lips, and quite beside himself with ecstasy

"Ah, I did not tell you to say that!" she cried, with a gay laugh and

vivid blush "I never said you were to call me dear"

"It arose fro

earnestness and fervid glance; "for you are dear to rew a deeper glow on the lady's face; but, singular to

relate, she did not look the least surprised or displeased; and the hand

he had feloniously purloined lay passive and quite contented in his

"Sir Norsley is pleased to jest," said the lady, in a subdued

tone, and with her eyes fixed pertinaciously on her shining dress; "for

he has never spoken toto do with it, Leoline I love you as devotedly as if

I had known you froe to say, I feel as if we

had been friends for years instead of er to h, for that er to me, Sir