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"Indeed,whatevery day I even may be compelled to drop the offensive 'Mistress' and call myself Citoyenne Adaards his citizenship far above his office What say you, Lieutenant?"

"I think, madame, that fifty, one hundred, one thousand years after this day, it will be of little importance what prefix is put before the name of the President He will be sie"

"That is true," said Mrs Adams "Fame uses no prefixes It is Pompey, Julius Caesar, Pericles, Alfred, Hampden, Oliver Cromwell Or it is a suffix like Alexander the Great; or Richard Coeur-de-Lion I have no objection to Washington the Great, or Washington Coeur-de-Lion"

"Washington will do for love and for faeneration may say MR Madison, or MR Monroe, or MR Jay; but they ant neither prefix nor suffix to Washington, Jefferson, Franklin,--and, if you permit me, sir--Adams"

The Vice-president was much pleased He said "Pooh! Pooh!" and stood up and stepped loftily across the hearth-rug, but the subtle compliment arm to his heart, and the real worth of the ht to the front, as he looked, under its influence, the honest, positive, honourable gentlereat occasion found him to be

"Well, well," he answered; "heartily, and from our souls, we must do our best, and then trust to Truth and Tio to town--our affairs give us no holidays" And then instantly the roolish exit; and, indeed, even in his physical aspect, John Adams was a perfect picture of the traditional John Bull His natural tea the Revolutionary war, he was, in politics, passionate, dog, and in social life cereone, Mrs Adaarden; and Hyde hoped then to obtain a feords with her But Mrs Srievance she had evidently been previously discussing With a provoking petulance she told and re-told so always "Lady Temple is very civil to e visits with any lady who does not payon this text, Hyde found no opportunity to get a word in on his own affairs; and then, suddenly, as they turned into the main avenue, Doctor Moran and Cornelia appeared