"The knitting has not stopped yet in some places.

Have you been much in the Soath, Mr.
Beaton ?" Beaton explained just how much.
"Well, sir," said the Colonel, "then you have seen a country making gigantic struggles to retrieve its losses, sir.

The South is advancing with enormous strides, sir." "Too fast for some of us to keep up," said Miss Woodburn, in an audible aside.

"The pace in Charlottesboag is pofectly killing, and we had to drop oat into a slow place like New York." "The progress in the South is material now," said the Colonel; "and those of us whose interests are in another direction find ourselves--isolated--isolated, sir.

The intellectual centres are still in the No'th, sir; the great cities draw the mental activity of the country to them, sir.