This is a lesson for us ruder and less subtle spirits.

Now mind, thwarted love seldom kills a busy man; but it often kills an idle woman, and your daughter is an idle woman.

He is an iron pot, she is a china vase.

Please don't hit them too hard with the hammer of paternal wisdom, or you will dent my iron pot, and break your china vase to atoms." Having administered this warning, Dr.Amboyne went straight from Woodbine Villa to Little's factory; but Little was still in London; he had gone there to take out patents.

Bayne promised to send the doctor a line immediately on his return.