"Alas! she has never been a friend to our family--not at least for many a day." "She favours the bold, say my old grammatical exercises," answered her brother; "and I must trust her, were she as changeable as a weathercock .-- And yet--if she should jilt me!--What will you do--what will you say, Clara, if I am unable, contrary to my hope, trust, and expectation, to repay you this money within a short time ?" "Do ?" replied Clara; "I must do without it, you know; and for saying, I will not say a word." "True," replied Mowbray, "but your little expenses--your charities--your halt and blind--your round of paupers ?" "Well, I can manage all that too.

Look you here, John, how many half-worked trifles there are.

The needle or the pencil is the resource of all distressed heroines, you know; and I promise you, though I have been a little idle and unsettled of late, yet, when I do set about it, no Emmeline or Ethelinde of them all ever sent such loads of trumpery to market as I shall, or made such wealth as I will do.

I dare say Lady Penelope, and all the gentry at the Well, will purchase, and will raffle, and do all sort of things to encourage the pensive performer.

I will send them such lots of landscapes with sap-green trees, and mazareen-blue rivers, and portraits that will terrify the originals themselves--and handkerchiefs and turbans, with needlework scallopped exactly like the walks on the Belvidere--Why, I shall become a little fortune in the first season." "No, Clara," said John, gravely, for a virtuous resolution had gained the upperhand in his bosom, while his sister ran on in this manner,--"We will do something better than all this.