But the cause of morality was precious to him; morality and a fit of softness, and the union of the happiest contrast of voices, had set him for a short while, before the dawn of Nesta's day, hankering after Priscilla Graves.

Skepsey's narrative of Matilda Pridden's work down at the East of London; was effective; it had the ring to thrill a responsive chord in Mr.Barmby, who mused on London's East, and martyrly service there.

His present expectations were of a very different sort; but a beautiful bride, bringing us wealth, is no misleading beam, if we direct the riches rightly.

Septimus, a solitary minister in those grisly haunts of the misery breeding vice, must needs accomplish less than a Septimus the husband of one of England's chief heiresses:--only not the most brilliant, owing to circumstances known to the Rev.Groseman Buttermore: strangely, and opportunely, revealed: for her exceeding benefit, it may be hoped.

She is no longer the ignorant girl, to reject the protecting hand of one whose cloth is the best of cloaking.