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She stopped in the street and looked at his of which she had never dreaine that a man should wish to put it off, but that he should have the face to declare to his young wo that she could not understand What business had such awoman? 'And what do you o easy, and not make yourself a bother'

'Not makeon with you, and nothing to come of it; but for you to tell me that you don't mean to marry, never at all! Never?'

'Don't you see lots of old bachelors about, Ruby?'

'Of course I does There's the Squire But he don't coirls to keep him company'

'That's more than you know, Ruby'

'If he did he'd entleman That's what he is, every inch of hiirl,--not to do her any haran to, cry 'You ain--never! I think you're the falsest young man, and the basest, and the lowest-minded that I ever heard tell of I know there are thes turn up, and they can't Or they gets to like others better; or there ain't nothing to live on But for a young ht out, as he never means to marry at all, is the lowest-spirited fellow that ever was I never read of such a one in none of the books No, I won't You go your way, and I'll go ood as her word, and escaped fro all the way to her aunt's door There was in her ainst the man, which she did not herself understand, in that he would incur no risk on her behalf He would not even make a lover's easy proht be made pleasant Ruby let herself into her aunt's house, and cried herself to sleep with a child on each side of her

On the next day Roger called She had begged Mrs Pipkin to attend the door, and had asked her to declare, should any gentleles was out Mrs Pipkin had not refused to do so; but, having heard sufficient of Roger Carbury to i hi made up her mind that Ruby's present condition of independence was equally unfavourable to the lodging-house and to Ruby herself, she deter lady When therefore Ruby was called into the little back parlour and found Roger Carbury there, she thought that she had been caught in a trap She had been very cross all the e she had been able on the previous evening to dismiss her titled lover, and to iain, nohen the remembrance of the loss caer console herself in her drudgery by thinking of the beautiful things that were in store for her, and by flattering herself that though at this ing-house, the ti in which she would bloom forth as a baronet's bride,--now in her solitude she alretted the precipitancy of her own conduct Could it be that she would never see hiht saloon? And ht it not be possible that she had pressed hiht to book, as she could bring to book such a one as John Crumb But yet,--that he should have said never;--that he would never ht, she was very unhappy, and this co of the Squire did not serve to cure her misery