Marry, indeed! and with a country apothecary, after-- No, no, one cannot so soon forget old associations, about which I will talk no more.

Let us return to Humdrum Hall.
For some time past it is Humdrum Hall no longer.

My dear, Miss Crawley has arrived with her fat horses, fat servants, fat spaniel--the great rich Miss Crawley, with seventy thousand pounds in the five per cents., whom, or I had better say WHICH, her two brothers adore.

She looks very apoplectic, the dear soul; no wonder her brothers are anxious about her.

You should see them struggling to settle her cushions, or to hand her coffee! "When I come into the country," she says (for she has a great deal of humour), "I leave my toady, Miss Briggs, at home.
My brothers are my toadies here, my dear, and a pretty pair they are!" When she comes into the country our hall is thrown open, and for a month, at least, you would fancy old Sir Walpole was come to life again.