She sings and plays now, although I have heard neither a song nor a tune from her for a long time past.

In the evening, too, she is exceedingly cheerful when we sit together in the drawing-room; and she often laughs more heartily than I ever knew her to do before in my life.

Now, do you think, Doldrum, if she was breaking her heart about Reilly that she would be in such spirits ?" "No, sir; she would be melancholy and silent, and would neither sing, nor laugh, nor play; at least I felt, so when I was in love with Miss Swithers, who kept me in a state of equilibrium for better than two years;--but that wasn't the worst of it, for she knocked the loyalty clean out of me besides--indeed, so decidedly so that I never once sang 'Lillibullero' during the whole period of my attachment, and be hanged to her." "And what became of her ?" "Why, she married my clerk, who used to serve my love-letters upon her; and when I expected to come in by execution--that is, by marriage--that cursed little sheriff, Cupid, made a return of _nulla bona_.

She and Sam Snivel--a kind of half Puritan--entered a _dis_appearance, and I never saw them since; but I am told they are in America.

From what you tell me, sir, I have no doubt but Miss Folliard will make a capital witness.
In fact, Reilly ought to feel proud of the honor of being hanged by her evidence; she will be a host in herself." We have already stated that the leading counsel against Reilly had succeeded in getting his trial postponed until Miss Folliard should arrive at a sufficient state of health to appear against him.