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"You are the serpent who has broken up this peaceful home I shall be ainst itself Arthur has promised to help Stocks, while the Manorwaters, root and branch, are pledged to support him"

"I'll do my best, Lewie, for old acquaintance' sake It had to come sooner or later, you know, and it is as well that you should seize the favourable ht I want to enjoy reat arms, and wandered about the roootten the very existence of things political Arthur, who had a contest to face shortly, was eager for advice and the odds and ends of information which defend the joints in a candidate's harness, but the well-inforave his verdict on rods, and ranged through a cabinet of sporting requisites Then he fell on his host's books, and for an hour the three were content to listen to him It was rarely that Wratislaw fell into such htly disregarded A laborious youth had given hireat stores of scholarship, and Lewis's books were a curious if chaotic collection On the fly-leaf of a little duodecimo was an inscription from the author of Waverley, who had often round A Dunbar had Hawthornden's autograph, and a set of tall classic folios bore the handwriting of George Buchanan Lord Kames, Hume, and a score of others had dedicated works to lairds of Etterick, and the Haystouns thened at tie prizes, a few modern authors, soes on some matters of diplomatic interest-were crowded into a little oak bookcase which had once graced his college roo, reading a score of lines

"What a nice taste you have in arrangement!" he cried "Scott, Tolstoi, Meredith, an odd volua library, an odd volume of the Corpus Boreale, soried above them And then an odd Badminton volume, French Memoires, a Dante, a Homer, and a badly printed German text of Schopenhauer! Three different copies of Rabelais, a De Thou, a Horace, and-bless my soul!--about twenty books of fairy tales! Lewie, you must have a mind like a lumber-room"