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 head, which is very well in its proper sphere, upon coping, if I may use such an expression, with the male."

This harangue, which Mr. Stubbs and young Gooch, though too respectful to interrupt, waited, impatiently, to hear finished, might have lasted unbroken for half an hour, if Miss Bydel, in passing by with her brother, to get to her carriage, had not called out, "Bless me, Mr. Scope, what are you talking of there, with that young person? Have you been asking her about that business at the blind harper's concert? I should be glad to know, myself, Miss Ellis, as I call you, what you intend to do next? Have any of your scholars let you go to them again? And what says Miss Arbe to all this? Does she think you'll ever get the better of it?"

Mr. Bydel, here, begged his sister to invite Mr. Scope to take a place in the carriage.

Young Gooch, then, would have renewed his questions relative to the