But when it came to describing the small differences of manner, differences not due to external habits, so much as to internal sentiment or education, or mere domestic circumstance, he was beyond his proper field.

In the sketch of the St.Ronan's Spa and the company at the _table-d'hote_, he is of course somewhere near the mark,--he was too able a man to fall far short of success in anything he really gave to the world; but it is not interesting.

Miss Austen would have made Lady Penelope Penfeather a hundred times as amusing.

We turn to Meg Dods and Touchwood, and Cargill, and Captain Jekyl, and Sir Bingo Binks, and to Clara Mowbray,--i.

e.