Read the popular books--attend the popular amusements; and you will find at the bottom of them all a lessening regard for the gentler graces of civilized life, and a growing admiration for the virtues of the aboriginal Britons!" Arnold listened in blank amazement.

He had been the innocent means of relieving Sir Patrick's mind of an accumulation of social protest, unprovided with an issue for some time past.

"How hot you are over it, Sir!" he exclaimed, in irrepressible astonishment.
Sir Patrick instantly recovered himself.

The genuine wonder expressed in the young man's face was irresistible.
"Almost as hot," he said, "as if I was cheering at a boat-race, or wrangling over a betting-book--eh?
Ah, we were so easily heated when I was a young man! Let's change the subject.

I know nothing to the prejudice of your friend, Mr.Delamayn.