I maintain"---- "Mr.Quarrier does not go about as you would have us believe." "Serena!" interfered her mother.

"Do you contradict Mr.Vialls ?" "Yes, mother, I do, and every one ought to who _knows_ that he is exaggerating.

I have heard this calumny before, and I have been told how it has arisen.

Mr.Quarrier takes a glass of beer when he is having a long country walk; and why he shouldn't quench his thirst I'm sure I can't understand." "Miss Mumbray," said the clergyman, glaring at her, yet affecting forbearance, "you seem to forget that our cottagers are not so inhospitable as to refuse a glass of water to the weary pedestrian who knocks at their door." "I don't forget it, Mr.Vialls," replied Serena, who was trembling at her own boldness, but found a pleasure in persevering.

"And I know very well what sort of water one generally gets at cottages about here.