Did you, Polly ?" "Not me." "Ah! not unnatural.

An out-of-the-way word." Greenacre hid his contempt beneath a smile.

"Well now, I repeat that Lord Polperro longs to return to the bosom of his family.

He has even gone in the darkness of the night to look at his wife's abode, and returned home in misery.

A fact! At this moment--your attention, I beg--I am assisting him to form a plan by which he will be enabled to live a natural life without the unpleasantness of public gossip.