Be sure of my gratitude.' And then she began to look at me and presently said, 'Pray, are you engaged in some species of manufacture ?' I wanted to say that I manufactured broom-sticks for old witches to ride on, but Lizzie got in ahead of me.

'My husband, Madame la Marquise,' she said, 'belongs to that unfortunate class of persons who have no profession and no business, and do very little good in the world.' To get her poke at the old woman she didn't care where she shoved me.

'Dear me,' said the marquise, 'we all have our duties.' 'I am sorry mine compel me to take leave of you,' said Lizzie.

And we bundled out again.

But you have a mother-in-law, in all the force of the term." "Oh," said Newman, "my mother-in-law desires nothing better than to let me alone." Betimes, on the evening of the 27th, he went to Madame de Bellegarde's ball.