In the meantime, I cordially regret not having known the local music-seller in early life.
Personally speaking, I have no cause to complain of Miss Vanstone.
We have arranged that she shall regularly forward her address (at the post-office) to her friends, as we move about from place to place.
Besides communicating in this way with her sister, she also reports herself to a certain Mr.Clare, residing in Somersetshire, who is to forward all letters exchanged between herself and his son.

Careful inquiry has informed me that this latter individual is now in China.
Having suspected from the first that there was a gentleman in the background, it is highly satisfactory to know that he recedes into the remote perspective of Asia.

Long may he remain there! The trifling responsibility of finding a name for our talented Magdalen to perform under has been cast on my shoulders.

She feels no interest whatever in this part of the subject.

"Give me any name you like," she said; "I have as much right to one as to another.