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 wish you could get me an autograph of Mr. Washington Irving; I want it for a particular friend."

"Give me a pen and ink; I 'll write you one immediately."

"Oh! Mr. Grey."

"There! now you've made me blot Faustus."

At this moment the room-door suddenly opened, and as suddenly shut.

"Who was that, Mr. Grey?"

"Mephistophiles, or Mrs. Felix Lorraine; one or the other,—perhaps both."

"Mr. Grey!"

"What do you think of Mrs. Felix Lorraine, Miss Manvers?"

"Oh! I think her a very amusing woman, a very clever woman, a very—but—"

"But, what?"

"But I can't exactly make her out."

"Nor I, nor I—she's a dark riddle; and, although I am a very dipus, I confess I have