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 *enth and most attractive daughter, and I will have my hat ironed, and be proud to accompany you down the nave of the cathedral."

It was not often that this man of the world was moved in this way; but he had just staged a rattling good comedy, and devilled kidneys and Welsh rarebits and tankards of strong ale are rather stimulating diet, when you sit listening to the chimes at midnight. It is a disconcerting psychological fact, though, that no young man has ever heeded the voice of wisdom in these circumstances.

"It is awful good of you, Minnie, to take the trouble to advise me, but I'm goin' to marry Mary Caspar if flesh and blood can manage it."

"Then it's a walk-over for flesh and blood, you silly young fool," said Arminius Wingrove with rather brutal frankness.