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 and endeavouring to conceal, in her work-bag something that she had wrapt into a sheet of paper, that was confessedly pilfered from my table."—

The Admiral, observing, in the midst of the disturbance of Juliet at this attack, an air of offended dignity, which urged him to believe that she was innocent, unhesitatingly answered, ""Tis an old saying, Madam, and a wise one, that standers-by see the most of the game; and I have taken frequent note, that we are all of one mind, till we have heard two sides of the question: for which reason I hold it but fair, that the young gentlewoman should be asked what she has to say for herself."

"Can you suppose, Sir," said Mrs. Howel, the veins of whose face and throat now looked bursting, "that I mean to canvass this matter upon terms of equality? that I intend to be my own pleader against a pauper and an impostor?"—

Juliet here held her hand upon her forehead, as if scarcely able to sustain