The Paragon hardly vouchsafed him a word of reply, but escaped up-stairs, trusting that he might meet Miss Trefoil on the way.

He was a bold man and even ventured to knock at her door;--but there was no reply, and, fearing the Senator, he had to betake himself to his own privacy.

Miss Trefoil had migrated to her mother's room, and there, over the fire, was holding a little domestic conversation.

"I never saw such a barrack in my life," said Lady Augustus.
"Of course, mamma, we knew that we should find the house such as it was left a hundred years ago.

He told us that himself." "He should have put something in it to make it at any rate decent before we came in." "What's the use if he's to live always at foreign courts ?" "He intends to come home sometimes, I suppose, and, if he didn't, you would." Lady Augustus was not going to let her daughter marry a man who could not give her a home for at any rate a part of the year.