Lizzie and Her Lover During the remainder of that Monday and all the Tuesday, Lizzie's mind was, upon the whole, averse to matrimony.

She had told Miss Macnulty of her prospects, with some amount of exultation; and the poor dependant, though she knew that she must be turned out into the street, had congratulated her patroness.

"The Vulturess will take you in again, when she knows you've nowhere else to go," Lizzie had said,--displaying, indeed, some accurate discernment of her aunt's character.

But after Lady Fawn's visit she spoke of the marriage in a different tone.

"Of course, my dear, I shall have to look very close after the settlement." "I suppose the lawyers will do that," said Miss Macnulty.
"Yes;--lawyers! That's all very well.