C'EST QUE MONSIEUR EST UN HOMME DE BIEN: IL A DES BIENS, A CE QU'ON DIT.' Lord Colambre could not help smiling.

'How they got Heathcock to fall in love is what puzzles me,' said his lordship.

'I should as soon have thought of an oyster's falling in love as that being!' 'I own I should have sooner thought,' replied the count, 'Of his falling in love with an oyster; and so would you, if you had seen him, as I did, devouring oysters on shipboard.
'Say, can the lovely HEROINE hope to vie With a fat turtle or a ven'son pie?
But that is not our affair; let the Lady Isabel look to it.' Dinner was announced; and no farther conversation of any consequence passed between the count and Lord Colambre till the cloth was removed and the servants had withdrawn.

Then our hero opened on the subject which was heavy at his heart.
'My dear count--to go back to the BURIAL PLACE OF THE NUGENTS, where my head was lost the first time I had the pleasure of seeing you--you know, or, possibly,' said he, smiling, 'you do not know, that I have a cousin of the name of Nugent ?' 'You told me,' replied the count, 'that you had near relations of that name; but I do not recollect that you mentioned any one in particular.' 'I never named Miss Nugent to you.

No! it is not easy to me to talk of her, and impossible to me to describe her.