Francesca stays over here as a kind of missionary to Scotland, so she says, or as a feminine diplomat; she wishes to be on hand to enforce the Monroe Doctrine properly, in case her government's accredited ambassadors relax in the performance of their duty." "Salemina!" called a laughing voice outside the door.

"I am won'erful lifted up.

You will be a prood woman the day, for I am now Estaiblished!" and Francesca, clad in Miss Grieve's Sunday bonnet, shawl, and black cotton gloves, entered, and curtsied demurely to the floor.

She held, as corroborative detail, a life of John Knox in her hand, and anything more incongruous than her sparkling eyes and mutinous mouth under the melancholy head-gear can hardly be imagined.
"I am now Estaiblished," she repeated.

"Div ye ken the new asseestant frae Inchcawdy pairish?
I'm the mon' (a second deep curtsy here).
"I trust, leddies, that ye'll mak' the maist o' your releegious preevileges, an' that ye'll be constant at the kurruk .-- Have you given papa's consent, Salemina?
And isn't it dreadful that he is Scotch ?" "Isn't it dreadful that she is not ?" asked Mr.Macdonald.