More horses' legs have been worn out, more coachmen's lives consumed, more hours of sound afternoon time vainly lavished than served to win us the battle of Waterloo, and pay for it into the bargain.

The little demons are the source of as many reprieves, calamities, and anxieties as the battle itself.

Sometimes Mrs.Bonham has just gone out; at others she is at home.

But, even if the cards should be superseded, which seems unlikely, there are unruly powers blowing life into storms, disordering sedulous mornings, and uprooting the stability of the afternoon--dressmakers, that is to say, and confectioners' shops.

Six yards of silk will cover one body; but if you have to devise six hundred shapes for it, and twice as many colours ?--in the middle of which there is the urgent question of the pudding with tufts of green cream and battlements of almond paste.