Oh, the day that I ever married one of 'em--but there, I ought to be ashamed of myself, and my lord's daughter facing me." "Do you know me ?" I asked, with hot color in my face, and my eyes, I dare say, glistening.

"Are you sure that you know me?
And then please to tell me how." As I spoke I was taking off the close silk bonnet which I had worn for travelling, and my hair, having caught in a pin, fell round me, and before I could put it up, or even think of it, I lay in the great arms of Betsy Bowen, as I used to lie when I was a little baby, and when my father was in his own land, with a home and wife and seven little ones.
And to think of this made me keep her company in crying, and it was some time before we did any thing else.
"Well, well," replied the Major, who detested scenes, except when he had made them; "I shall be off.

You are in good hands; and the cabman pulled out his watch when we stopped.

So did I.But he is sure to beat me.

They draw the minute hand on with a magnet, I am told, while the watch hangs on their badge, and they can swear they never opened it.