Have the goodness, Maria, to tell Mrs.Bell exactly what Hunt said, when you went in to buy the brown loaf for me last Friday." "Oh, sister--I--I really don't remember." "Don't remember! Piddle dumpling! You remembered well enough when you came back all agog with the news.

I reproved you for listening to idle gossip, and you read a sermon of Blair's on evil speaking aloud to me that night.

You shall read sermon ten to-night.

It's on lying.

Well, Mrs.Bell, _I_ can repeat what my poor sister has forgotten.