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 you poor, I must be a fool to be kept out of my money, when I know you have got it in plenty: and Mr. Giles says that he counted, with his own hands, ten ten-pound bank-notes. Now I should be glad if you have no objection, to hear how you came by all that money, Mrs. Ellis; for ten ten-pound bank-notes make a hundred pounds."

Oh! absent—unguarded—dangerous Mr. Giles Arbe! thought Ellis, how much benevolence do you mar, by a distraction of mind that leads to so much mischief!

"I hope I have done nothing improper?" cried Mr. Giles, perceiving, with concern, the disturbance of Ellis, "in mentioning this; for I protest I never recollected, till this very minute, that the money is not your own. It slipt my memory, somehow, entirely."

"Nay, nay, how will you make that out, Mr. Giles?" cried Miss Bydel. "If it were not her own, how came she to pay her tradesmen with it, as you told us that she did, Mr. Giles?"