I dined with your nephew yesterday, and met at his table a young man--a young man of low manners, but evidently one who has blinded your nephew, and I too much fear has succeeded in making an impression upon your niece.

His name is Hoskins, madam; and when I state that he who was never in the house during your presence there, has dined with your too confiding nephew sixteen times in three weeks, I may leave you to imagine what I dare not--dare not imagine myself.' "The shot told.

Your aunt bounced up at once, and in ten minutes more was in my carriage, on our way back to London.

There, sir, was not that generalship ?" "And you played this pretty trick off at my wife's expense, Mr.
Smithers," said I.
"At your wife's expense, certainly; but for the benefit of both of you." "It's lucky, sir, that you are an old man," I replied, "and that the affair happened ten years ago; or, by the Lord, Mr.Smithers, I would have given you such a horsewhipping as you never heard of!" But this was the way in which Mrs.Hoggarty was brought back to her relatives; and this was the reason why we took that house in Bernard Street, the doings at which must now he described..