It isn't all of us that can make conquests when our ugliness is past its bloom.' 'The lady seemed to have made a conquest of him at the very outset,' said Mr.Ely.

'I was immensely amused one night at Granby's when he was telling us her story about her husband's adventures.

He said, "When she told me the tale, I felt I don't know how,--I felt it from the crown of my head to the sole of my feet."' Mr.Ely gave these words dramatically, imitating the Rev.Amos's fervour and symbolic action, and every one laughed except Mr.Duke, whose after-dinner view of things was not apt to be jovial.

He said,--'I think some of us ought to remonstrate with Mr.Barton on the scandal he is causing.

He is not only imperilling his own soul, but the souls of his flock.' 'Depend upon it,' said Mr.Cleves, 'there is some simple explanation of the whole affair, if we only happened to know it.