Why, what's the matter ?" "Oh, nothing!" he replied, with a shrug of his shoulders.

"Nothing's the matter, little Vicar.

_Let us keep inflexible, and fortune will at last change in our favor._" "Now whatever did he mean by that!" exclaimed Mary, as she watched him walk away.

It puzzled her all the rest of the evening that he should have met her question with the family motto..