MRS.

MARSETT.
Little acts of kindness were not beyond the range of Colney Durance, and he ran down to Brighton, to give the exiled Nesta some taste of her friendly London circle.

The Duvidney ladies knew that the dreaded gentleman had a regard for the girl.

Their own, which was becoming warmer than they liked to think, was impressed by his manner of conversing with her.

'Child though she was,' he paid her the compliment of a sober as well as a satirical review of the day's political matter and recent publications; and the ladies were introduced, in a wonderment, to the damsel Delphica.