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Rh "Invited you?" said Rochechouart, looking not very well pleased.

"Pourquoi pas?" said D'Armagnac.

"You will be nothing the forwarder," answered Rochechouart, "for she cannot speak a word of French, and you do not speak English."

"Bah!" said D'Armagnac, "what does that signify? Faut il de la grammaire pour parler à une jolie femme?"

"Well," said Colonel Jones, to the young lady, when he returned home, "how do you like the Duke?"

"I like him very well," replied Miss Jones.

"And did he tell you he liked you ?" asked the Colonel.

"I believe he's courting me," answered the niece; "but I'm not sure it's for marriage."

"Leave that to me," returned the uncle"If you take care of yourself, we shall bring him to that, I warrant."

"I'll have nothing to say to him else," answered Miss Jones. "I would rather go on to Bourdeaux directly to the old Marquis. Mr. Gaveston said he was sure he'd marry me."

"May be he would, but there's no telling," replied the Colonel. "And, at all events, a young Duke in the hand is well worth an old