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"I expect you are tired now," I said a little breathlessly "So I will

say good-night--Milady, and hope that you will sleep well the first

night in your new hoot up and she caht," she whispered quite low, but she never looked at lancing back And when

she had gone instead of going to bed I once more sank into my chair I

felt queerly faint, e wedding night!

Burton's face was a e scenes he has witnessed and assisted at, after forty years

spent into the caprices of the aristocracy, I believe he

thinks this is the strangest!

When I was in bed and he was about to go, I suddenly went into a peal of

bitter laughter He stopped near the door

"Beg pardon, Sir Nicholas?" he said as though I had called to his in the world, Burton!"

"They are indeed, Sir Nicholas," and he smiled "One and all, from