Mr.Durance has remarked on it:--though I would not always quote Mr.Durance...

indeed, he says, that England has invested an Old Maid's All in the Millennium, and is ruined if it delays to come.

"Old Maid," I do not see.

I do not--if I may presume to speak of myself in the same breath with so clever a gentleman, agree with Mr.Durance in everything.

But the chest-measurement of recruits, the stature of the men enlisted, prove that we are losing the nursery of our soldiers.' 'We are taking them out of the nursery, Skips, if you 're for quoting Captain Dartrey,' said Nesta.