Who would have thought!--is the cry when the strongest bulwark of the fence is broken through.
Jane least of any would have thought what was coming to pass.

The pale square-browed young officer, so little Irish and winning in his brevity of speech, did and said nothing to alarm her or strike the smallest light.

Grace Barrow noticed certain little changes of mood in Jane she could scarcely have had a distinct suspicion at the time.

After a recent observation of him, on an evening stroll from Lappett's to Woodside, she pronounced him interesting, but hard.

'He has an interesting head...
I should not like to offend him.' They agreed as to his unlikeness to fluid Patrick; both eulogistic of the absent brother; and Jane, who could be playful in privacy with friends, clapped a brogue on her tongue to discourse of Patrick and apostrophise him: 'Oh! Pat, Pat, my dear cousin Pat! why are you so long away from your desponding Jane?
I 'll take to poetry and write songs, if you don't come home soon.