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'Have you been at the Melmottes' to-day?' It was now five o'clock on a winter afternoon, the hour at which ladies are drinking tea, and idleidle men are soht, her son reat heiress

'I have just come away'

'And what do you think of her?'

'To tell the truth, ht very little about her She is not pretty, she is not plain; she is not clever, she is not stupid; she is neither saint nor sinner'

'The ood wife'

'Perhaps so I a to believe that as wife she would be good enough for me'

'What does the mother say?'

'Thewhether, if I hter, I shall ever find out where the estaffe says that somebody says that she was a Bohemian Jewess; but I think she's too fat for that'

'What does it matter, Felix?'

'Not in the least'

'Is she civil to you?'

'Yes, civil enough'

'And the father?'

'Well, he does not turnof that sort Of course there are half-a-dozen after her, and I think the old fellow is bewildered a dukes to dine with hiht pick her up who happened to hit her fancy'

'And why not you?'

'Why not,a willing horse Can you let me have the money?'

'Oh, Felix, I think you hardly kno poor we are You have still got your hunters down at the place!'

'I have got two horses, if youfor their keep since the season began Look here, rant, but I a it by your advice If I can ht But I don't think the way to get her would be to throw up everything and let all the world know that I haven't got a copper To do that kind of thing adown to a ether there would be lots of fellows to tell them in Grosvenor Square why I had done so'