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"But Sir Walter Scott--I suppose Mr Lydgate knows hie

"Oh, I read no literature now," said Lydgate, shutting the book, and

pushing it away "I read so much when I was a lad, that I suppose it

will last me all my life I used to know Scott's poems by heart"

"I should like to knohen you left off," said Rosa which you did not know"

"Mr Lydgate would say that was not worth knowing," said Mr Ned,

purposely caustic

"On the contrary," said Lydgate, showing no s confidence at Rosa by the

fact that Miss Vincy could tell it , thinking that

Lydgate was one of the most conceited, unpleasant fellows it had ever

been his ill-fortune to hted "Do you see

that you have given offence?"

"What! is it Mr Plymdale's book? I ain to admit what you said of yourself when you first ca by the birds"

"Well, there is a bird who can teach ly?"

To Rosaed

That they were so been an idea in her

mind; and ideas, we know, tend to aat hand It is true, Lydgate had the

counter-idea of reative, a

shadow cast by other resolves which the Circumstance was almost sure to be on the side of