"Everybody you come across, if, as you think, it will be the means of inducing people to attend.

I shall tell all friends who call upon me, and ask them to go." When Mr.Carlyle came up in the evening, the earl was temporarily absent from the room.

Isabel began to speak of the concert.
"It is a hazardous venture for Mr.Kane," observed Mr.Carlyle.

"I fear he will only lose money, and add to his embarrassments." "Why do you fear that ?" she asked.
"Because, Lady Isabel, nothing gets patronized at West Lynne--nothing native; and people have heard so long of poor Kane's necessities, that they think little of them." "Is he so very poor ?" "Very.

He is starved half his time." "Starved!" repeated Isabel, an expression of perplexity arising to her face as she looked at Mr.Carlyle, for she scarcely understood him.