He has but two faults; he is too scrupulous about trifles, and a little too Quixotic in his ideas about women.

However, my wife will never let me say that." The subject did not interest Mr.Percy; he began to ask questions about something else, and they soon after reached home.

Later in the day Mrs.
Bellairs met him coming in extremely bored from her husband's office.
"I am going to pay some visits," she said, "are you disposed to go with me ?" "Most thankfully," he answered.

"I have been listening to half-a-dozen cases of trespass, not a single word of which I could understand.

It will be doing me the greatest kindness to take me into civilized society." "I thought," she said laughing, "that you came to the backwoods to escape civilized society." "If I did," he replied, handing her into the pony-carriage, "it is quite clear that I made a happy mistake." "I am going first," she said, as soon as Bob was fairly in motion, "to the Parsonage.