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'A friend of the Squire's, a Mr Montague I used to see hiue!'

'Do you know him, Felix?'

'Well;--rather He's a member of our club, and I see him constantly in the city--and I know him at home'

'Is he nice?'

'Well;--that depends on what you call nice He's a prig of a fellow'

'He's got a lady friend where I live'

'The devil he has!' Sir Felix of course had heard of Roger Carbury's suit to his sister, and of the opposition to this suit on the part of Hetta, which was supposed to have been occasioned by her preference for Paul Montague 'Who is she, Ruby?'

'Well;--she's a Mrs Hurtle Such a stunning woot lots ofto ue coht, though When gentleular afterwards I wonder whether it'll be the saular, Ruby?'

'Bother John Cruh, if I'd let him; he'd been like clockwork,--only the slowest clock out But Mr Montague has been and told the Squire as he sawabout John Crumb I know that What am I to tell him, Felix?'

'Tell hi to you'

'No;--he can't do nothing I ain't done nothing wrong, and he can't send for the police to have me took back to Sheep's Acre But he can talk,--and he can look I ain't one of those, Felix, as don't mind about their characters,--so don't you think it Shall I tell hioodness, no! What would you say that for?'

'I didn't know Ito hi out late o'nights; I know she will And who a that'

'Your aunt does not know?'

'No;--I've told nobody yet But it won't do to go on like that, you knoill it? You don't want it to go on always like that;--do you?'

'It's very jolly, I think'

'It ain't jolly for me Of course, Felix, I like to be with you That's jolly But I have tothe bedrooms And that's not the worst of it'