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I went out of the roo suddenly, I ran upon an unexpected scene; up to that time, before us all, the parents had seemed perfectly stolid; but just as I opened the door, the wife and mother rose from her knees by the bed, and I have seldom seen a look more expressive of tender love than that hich her husband took her in his ars to learn in the next world; one of these, I ae by the life upon the surface There is a deep fount of feeling beneath, and often it is those e least suspect, who dip down into it

I was still busy with these people, when Randolph Chance walked in uponto join in our little attentions, and he was of especial use in getting a vehicle to take the faone, and we found ourselves alone, a great erasp

By and by I realized that I was really getting incensed, and I was afraid I should soon be in the position of the ize for his bad conduct, and, "By Jove, sir"--to use his own phrase, "I hit hiain"

I tried to keep my letter before my eyes I didn't want to be forced by that inexorable tyrant--conscience--to write another And I should, if I didn't hold on to myself, and this man didn't behave differently

To avoid a clash, I set to work to clear away some of the confusion consequent upon the accident, and he helped ht serve to cool him, and it did indeed, to such an extent that, upon our settling down again, he began thethe scenery; weather; population, and general aspects of Buffalo; with reeable stuff, that aa wo

To erew madder and ht, that when he began to tell of his brother's house in Buffalo, and to dwell upon the peculiarities of its furniture, I felt peculiar enough to hurl all ofwould for other resolves, I determined from that day on, if I lived till my hair whitened--lived till I raised ive Randolph Chance another thought There was one comfort: he did not know, nor did any one else, what a coh I had been most foolish, thanks to a sober, Puritanic ancestry, I still had myself in hand; my hysterics had been occasional and secluded, and I was not wholly gone daft I could recover; I would! and then, if ever he cas don't rise, after once they are cold