"L2.

18s.

if I give up the thought of a longer excursion with you, and go quietly home--" VANCE.--"And not pay your share of the bill yonder ?" LIONEL.--"Ah, I forgot that! But come, I am not too proud to borrow from you: it is not for a selfish purpose." VANCE.--"Borrow from me, Cato! That comes of falling in with bandits and their children.

No; but let us look at the thing like men of sense.
One story is good till another is told.

I will call by myself on Rugge to-morrow, and hear what he says; and then, if we judge favourably of the Cobbler's version, we will go at night and talk with the Cobbler's lodgers; and I dare say," added Vance, kindly, but with a sigh,--"I daresay the three pounds will be coaxed out of me! After all, her head is worth it.