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Politics was precisely the subject which had been occupying thee Rawdon, and Mr Nicholas Raere all standing, evidently just finishing a Conservative argu ood-humor as Tyrrel entered

"Here is Cousin Tyrrel," he cried; "he will tell you that youyou like radical, conservative, republican, deovernovern laws and voting taxes"

"Is that the kind of stuff you talk to our hands, John Thomas? No wonder they are neither to hold nor to bind"

They were in the hall as John Thomas finished his political creed, and in a few minutes the adieux were said, and the wonderful day was over It had been a wonderful day for all, but perhaps no one was sorry for a pause in life--a pause in which they ht and what it had taken away The Squire went at once to his rooly She seemed exhausted, and was out of sys

"What enormous vitality these Yorkshire women must have!" she said al incessantly for six hours She has felt all she said She has frequently risen and walked about She has used all sorts of actions to emphasize her words, and she is as fresh as if she had just taken herbath How do the men stand them?"

"Because they are just as vital John Thomas will overlook and scold and order his thousand hands all day, talk even his mother dohile he eats his dinner, and then lecture or lead his Musical Union, or conduct a poor o to 'the Weaver's Union,' and what he calls 'threep the capital, and killing the goose that lays golden eggs for them Oh, they are a wonderful race, Ruth!"

"I really can't discuss them now, Ethel"

"Don't you want to knohat Tyrrel said to me this afternoon?"

"My dear, I know Lovers have said such things before, and lovers will say theht he looked distrait and bored with our company"