So in his quality of a staff officer, he found fault with himself in his capacity as a line officer, reprimanded himself sharply, replied defiantly to the reprimand, and eventually reported himself to himself for discipline at head-quarters.

She told an excellent story of a near kinsman of hers who, holding a very good living in the Protestant Irish Church, came rather unexpectedly by inheritance into a baronetcy, upon which his women-folk insisted that it would be derogatory to a baronet to be a parson.

"Would you believe it, the poor man was silly enough to listen to their cackle, and resign seven hundred a year!" "That didn't clear him," I said, "of the cloth, did it ?" "Not a bit, of course, poor foolish man.

He was just as much a parson as ever, only without a parsonage.

Men are fools enough of themselves, don't you think, without needing to listen to women ?" Mr.Seigne comes of a French Protestant stock long ago planted in Ireland, and his Gallic blood doubtless helps him to handle the practical problems daily submitted in these days to an Irish land-agent--problems very different, as he thinks, from those with which an Irish agent had to deal in the days before 1870.