What has wrought the change?
And, after all, what is the change?
I can't define it, but there has been a great one." He was in a revery and spoke more to himself than to me.

"Yesterday she was my child--she was a child, and now--and now--she is--she is--Why the devil didn't you take her, Malcolm ?" cried the old man, awakening.

"But there, never mind; that is all past and gone, and the future Earl of Derby will be a great match for her." "Do you know the future Earl of Derby ?" I asked.

"Have you ever seen him ?" "No," Sir George replied.

"I hear he is rather wild and uncouth, but--" "My dear cousin," said I, interrupting him, "he is a vulgar, drunken clown, whose associates have always been stable boys, tavern maids, and those who are worse than either." "What ?" cried Sir George, hotly, the liquor having reached his brain.