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She looked round the room, told me positively that I was very co ood

fortune

"Why undeserved?" she wanted to know

"I engaged these rooht

have been an abos

like that I don't like to be bothered This is no great proof of

sagacity--is it? Sagacious people I believe like to exercise that

faculty I have heard that they can't even help showing it in the

veriest trifles Itof it

I think that I have no sagacity--no practical sagacity"

Fyne made an inarticulate bass murmur of protest I asked after the

children whom I had not seen yet since my return from town They had

been very well They were alell Both Fyne and Mrs Fyne spoke of

the rude health of their children as if it were a result of moral

excellence; in a peculiar tone which seemed to imply some contempt for

people whose children were liable to be unwell at tiize for the inquiry And this annoyed me;