If Mrs.Gallilee claims her right, what are we to do ?" Mr.Gallilee rose in his turn, and took a walk up and down the room.
That well-meant experiment only left him feebler than ever.
"What possessed her brother to make her Carmina's guardian ?" he asked--with the nearest approach to irritability of which he was capable.
The lawyer was busy with his own thoughts.

He only enlightened Mr.
Gallilee after the question had been repeated.
"I had the sincerest regard for Mr.Robert Graywell," he said.

"A better husband and father--and don't let me forget it, a more charming artist--never lived.

But," said Mr.Mool, with the air of one strong-minded man appealing to another: "weak, sadly weak.

If you will allow me to say so, your wife's self-asserting way--well, it was so unlike her brother's way, that it had its effect on him! If Lady Northlake had been a little less quiet and retiring, the matter might have ended in a very different manner.