The old man tells me how precious he finds your reading to him, now he is no longer able to go to church.' Miss Eliza only answered by a blush, which made her look all the handsomer, but her aunt said,--'Yes, Mr.Tryan, I have ever inculcated on my dear Eliza the importance of spending her leisure in being useful to her fellow-creatures.

Your example and instruction have been quite in the spirit of the system which I have always pursued, though we are indebted to you for a clearer view of the motives that should actuate us in our pursuit of good works.

Not that I can accuse myself of having ever had a self-righteous spirit, but my humility was rather instinctive than based on a firm ground of doctrinal knowledge, such as you so admirably impart to us.' Mrs.Linnet's usual entreaty that Mr.Tryan would 'have something--some wine and water and a biscuit', was just here a welcome relief from the necessity of answering Miss Pratt's oration.
'Not anything, my dear Mrs.Linnet, thank you.

You forget what a Rechabite I am.

By the by, when I went this morning to see a poor girl in Butcher's Lane, whom I had heard of as being in a consumption, I found Mrs.Dempster there.