I will go to bed then.

I wish they would have remained here; but the minister never will stay; he dislikes sleeping a single night from under his own roof.

Is he not a good man, cousin--one of a thousand ?" "I have not the slightest doubt of it." "And his daughter--have you in any way modified your opinion of her, which at first was not very favorable ?" "Not as to her beauty, certainly," was the careless reply.

"She's 'no bonnie,' as you say in these parts--terribly Scotch; but she is very good.

Only don't you think good people are just a little wearisome sometimes ?" The earl smiled.