Would you believe it,--that aged saint is a great novel-reader.

So he tells me.

What is more, he brings up his children to that sort of reading, from the time when they first begin to spell.

If anybody else had told me such a story about an old country deacon, I wouldn't have believed it; but he said so himself, to me, at breakfast this morning." Mr.Bradshaw felt as if either he or Mr.Lindsay must certainly be in the first stage of mild insanity, and he did not think that he himself could be out of his wits.

He must try one more question.