My father enjoyed justifying a man that everyone else was down on; and I've stood by many a woman nobody had a good word for.

I was never sorry for doing it, either.

I'll be going into a strange country soon, and I should not wonder if some of them that have gone there first will be ready to stand by me.

We don't know what friends we'll be glad of there." The dinner bell broke up this conversation, and Ethel during it told Madam about the cook and cooking at the Court and at Nicholas Rawdon's, where John Thomas had installed a French chef.

Other domestic arrangements were discussed, and when the Judge called for his daughter at four o'clock, Madam vowed "she had spent one of the happiest days of her life." "Ruth tells me," said the Judge, "that Dora Stanhope called for Ethel soon after she left home this morning.