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"Permit me to differ from your lordship Leoline would not touch you

with a pair of tongs!"

"Ah! she has better taste than you give her credit for; but if I should

fail, I knohat to do to console myself"

"May I ask what?"

"Yes! there is Hubert, as like her an two peas in a pod I shall dress

hiaws, and have a Leoline of my own

already made its order"

"Permit me to doubt that, too! Hubert is asthe volatile earl to put what construction pleased him best on

this last sententious ree, and

was ushered, at last, into an ante-rooe, still attired as Count L'Estrange, stood near a

overlooking the court-yard, and as the page salaareeted Sir Norman with his suavest air

"The appointed hour is passed, Sir Noruide hither tells me that you stopped for some

time at the house of a fortune-teller, known as La Masque Why was

this!"

"I was forced to stop on ht,

still resolved to treat hinito, "of which you shall hear anon Just now, our

business is with Leoline"