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"Your sentilish, sir"

"As I told you, we look at things from very different standpoints"

"Do you feel inclined to lift the e?"

"I have not the power, even if I had the inclination to do so My money is well invested, and I could not, at this ti a sacrifice not to be contemplated I confess, however, that if the Court has to be sold, I should like the Tyrrel-Rawdons to buy it I dare say the picture of the offending youth is still in the gallery, and I have heard my mother say that what is another's always yearns for its lord Driven froe for Love's sake, it would be at least interesting if Gold gave back to his children what Love lost them"

"That is pure sentiment Surely it would be more natural that the Mostyns should succeed the Rawdons We have, as it were, bought the right with at least a dozen interes"

"That also is pure sentiment Gold at last will carry the succession"

"But not your gold, I infer?"

"Not old; certainly not"

"Thank you for your decisive words They make my course clear"

"That is well As to your suive you advice I think you need the sea for a ood And a return to Mostyn to look after your affairs is equally good If I were you, I should follow , it is well done and enjoyed; if you do a thing because you think you ought to do it, failure and disappointment are often the results So do as you want to do; it is the only advice I can offer you"

"Thank you, sir It is very acceptable I may leave for Newport to-"

"I will tell theo to the country to-e on the Hudson we occupy in the summer Good-by, and I hope you will soon recover your usual health"

Then the Judge lifted his hat, and with a courteous movement left the room His face had the same suave urbanity of expression, but he could hardly restrain the passion in his heart Placid as he looked when he entered his house, he threw off all pretenses as soon as he reached his room The Yorkshire spirit which Ethel had declared found him out once in three hundred and sixty-four days and twenty-three hours was then in full pos-session The Ae had disappeared He looked as like his ancestors as anything outside of a painted picture could do His flushed face, his flashing eyes, his passionate exclamations, the sta attitude of his whole figure was but a replica of his great-grandfather, Anthony Rawdon, giving Radicals at the hustings or careless keepers at the kennels "a bit of his mind"