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"Katherine!" roared Mr Montgomerie "Will you listen when I speak--burrrr!" and he thumped his fist on the table

Poor Lady Katherine alive ----?"

"Cao for you," Lady Katherine said, in a relieved way, returning to her letters "Sophia Merrenden writes this s tells me of her nephew, Lord Robert Vavasour--you know, Torquilstone's half-brother She says he is the ests" (looking back a page), "that he un"

"Daomerie

I hope they did not notice, but I had suddenly such a thrill of pleasure that I ahtfully excited to hear as going to happen

"Merrenden, as you know, is the best judge of shooting in England," Lady Katherine went on, in an injured voice "Sophia is hardly likely to recoood"

"But you don't know the puppy, Katherine"

My heart fell

"That is not the least consequence; we are alet that, I suppose!"

Fortunately I could detect that Lady Katherine was beco obstinate and offended I drank some oot him round, and before breakfast was over it was decided she should write to Lord Robert and ask hi out of theat the dripping rain, I heard her say, in a low voice: "Really, Anderson, we irls sometimes Torquilstone is a confirmed bachelor and a cripple--Lord Robert will certainly one day be duke"

"Well, catch hio to let myself think much about Lord Robert Mr Carruthers has been a lesson to me But if he does come, I wonder if Lady Katherine will think it funny ofI knew him when she first spoke of him It is too late now, so it can't be helped

The Mackintosh party arrived this afternoon Marriage must have quite different effects on some people Numbers of the married womenin London were lovely--prettier, I always heard, than they had been before--but Mary Mackintosh is perfectly awful She can't be more than twenty-seven, but she looks forty, at least; and stout, and sticking out all in the wrong places, and flat where the stick-outs ought to be And the four children The two eldest look e, the next a little sh they seem to have heaps of nurses, poor Mr Mackintosh has to be a kind of under one He fetches and carries for theives his handkerchief when they slobber, but perhaps it is he feels proud that a person of his size had these four enormous babies almost all at once like that