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Lydgate's private opinion was that Mr Chichely ht be the very

coroner without bias as to the coats of the stomach, but he had not

meant to be personal This was one of the difficulties of erous to insist on knowledge as a

qualification for any salaried office Fred Vincy had called Lydgate a

prig, and now Mr Chichely was inclined to call hi-rooreeable to Rosamond, whom he had easily monopolized in a

tete-a-tete, since Mrs Vincy herself sat at the tea-table She

resigned no doood-natured face, with the two volatile pink strings floating

from her fine throat, and her cheery reat attractions of the Vincy

house--attractions which hter The tinge of unpretentious, inoffensive vulgarity in

Mrs Vincy gave more effect to Rosaate had expected

Certainly, small feet and perfectly turned shoulders aid the i said seeht when it is accompanied with exquisite curves of lip and eyelid

And Rosa; for she was clever with that

sort of cleverness which catches every tone except the humorous

Happily she never attempted to joke, and this perhaps was the ate readily got into conversation He regretted that he

had not heard her sing the other day at Stone Court The only pleasure