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 "Under which is carried a branch of the fifth pair of nerves—"

"I say, sir, when you are so shortly to be married to your cousin Marionetta—"

"The cavitas tympani—"

A loud noise was heard behind the book-case, which, to the astonishment of Mr. Glowry, opened in the middle, and the massy compartments, with all their weight of books, receding from each other, in the manner of a theatrical scene, with a heavy rolling sound, (which Mr. Glowry immediately recognised to be the same which had excited his curiosity,) disclosed an interior apartment, in the entrance of which stood the beautiful Stella; who, stepping forward, exclaimed, "Married! Is he going to be married? The profligate!"

"Really, madam," said Mr. Glowry, "I