"I did not know she was out." "She has been out all the evening," was Nancy's answer.

"I met her coming down the stairs, dressed.

And she could tell a story over it, too, for she said she was going to see her old father." But Master Dan Duff is not done with yet.

If that gentleman stood in awe of one earthly thing more than another, it was of the anger of his revered mother.

Mrs.Duff, in her maternal capacity, was rather free both with her hands and tongue.