"Allow me," says he to Lady G.( between the soop and the fish), "my dear madam, to thank you--fervently thank you for your goodness to my poor boy.

Your ladyship is too young to experience, but, I am sure, far too tender not to understand the gratitude which must fill a fond parent's heart for kindness shown to his child.

Believe me," says my lord, looking her full and tenderly in the face, "that the favors you have done to another have been done equally to myself, and awaken in my bosom the same grateful and affectionate feelings with which you have already inspired my son Algernon." Lady Griffin blusht, and droopt her head till her ringlets fell into her fish-plate: and she swallowed Lord Crabs's flumry just as she would so many musharuins.

My lord (whose powers of slack-jaw was notoarious) nex addrast another spitch to Miss Griffin.

He said he'd heard how Deuceace was SITUATED.