I have treated her in every respect like a genlmn, and she is as innocent now, ma'm, as she was when she was born.

If she'll marry me, I am ready; if she'll leave you, she shall have a home where she shall be neither bullyd nor starved: no hangry frumps of sisters, no cross mother-in-law, only an affeckshnat husband, and all the pure pleasures of Hyming." Mary flung herself into his arms--"Dear, dear Frederic," says she, "I'll never leave you." "Miss," says Mrs.Shum, "you ain't a Slamcoe nor yet a Buckmaster, thank God.

You may marry this person if your pa thinks proper, and he may insult me--brave me--trample on my feelinx in my own house--and there's no-o-o-obody by to defend me." I knew what she was going to be at: on came her histarrix agen, and she began screechin and roaring like mad.

Down comes of course the eleven gals and old Shum.

There was a pretty row.