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 and may perhaps push on to Prague. I want Chester to go with me, but he is spooney about his wife, and in a fidget to get home."

Oh, thank you, thank you," said Blanche. 'Now, is not it a blessing to have a spooney husband? What does spooney mean? However, I do not much care, it evidently means that Arthur is soon coming home. Poor Mrs. Armistead, I suppose she is very much distressed."

"Not a bit. She said she was very glad, that she wanted to go to the sea, and that Armistead was always so bored at the seaside, he was a worry to her, and now she could go in comfort."

Blanche shrugged her shoulders, and shuddered slightly at this painful picture of married life, and declined to believe that the Armisteads were a happy couple after their own fashion, and while she sat in a happy state of spooney meditation, Dr. Ayscough took her place with the Noah's ark. He settled Charlie on his knee and bowwowed, and barked, and mewed,