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'He has been so long his own master, mamma'

'Yes,--his own h he were but a child Hetta, you spent the whole evening talking to Paul Montague'

'No, mamma that is unjust'

'He was alith you'

'I knew nobody else I could not tell him not to speak to me I danced with him twice' Her mother was seated, with both her hands up to her forehead, and shook her head 'If you did not want me to speak to Paul you should not have takento him You knohat I want' Henrietta caht 'I think I a hysterically

'Is it my fault, mamma?'

'You could save me from much if you would I work like a horse, and I never spend a shilling that I can help I want nothing forfor myself Nobody has suffered as I have But Felix never thinks of me for a moment'

'I think of you, mamma'

'If you did you would accept your cousin's offer What right have you to refuse hiht, mamma' Lady Carbury just allowed herself to be kissed, and then was left alone

At eight o'clock the nextarden The Beargarden was so pleasant a club that there was no rule whatsoever as to its being closed,--the only law being that it should not be opened before three in the afternoon A sort of sanction had, however, been given to the servants to de, so that, about eight, unrelieved tobacco began to be too heavy even for juvenile constitutions The party consisted of Dolly Longestaffe, Lord Grasslough, Miles Grendall, and Felix Carbury, and the four had a the last six hours with various innocent ga the last half-hour with blind hookey But during the whole night Felix had won Miles Grendall hated him, and there had been an expressed opinion between Miles and the young lord that it would be both profitable and proper to relieve Sir Felix of the winnings of the last two nights The twohad shown their intention,--so that a certain feeling of hostility had been engendered The reader is not to understand that either of them had cheated, or that the baronet had entertained any suspicion of foul play But Felix had felt that Grendall and Grasslough were his enemies, and had thrown himself on Dolly for sympathy and friendship Dolly, however, was very tipsy