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"Piacer e popone

Vuol la sua stagione"

--Italian Proverb

Mr Casaubon, as reat deal of his tie in these weeks, and the hindrance which courtship occasioned

to the progress of his great work--the Key to all

Mythologies--naturally erly to the

happy termination of courtship But he had deliberately incurred the

hindrance, having made up his mind that it was now tiraces of feue was apt to hang over the intervals of studious

labor with the play of fee, the solace of fe years

Hence he deter, and

perhaps was surprised to find what an exceedingly shallow rill it was

As in droughty regions baptism by immersion could only be perfor was the ute which his stream would afford hierated the force of masculine

passion Nevertheless, he observed with pleasure that Miss Brooke

showed an ardent subreeable previsions of e It had once or twice crossed his

mind that possibly there was some deficiency in Dorothea to account for

the moderation of his abandonure to himself a woman ould have pleased him