What was the dispute of Lord Kew and Mr.Belsize, and this Mr.Sherrick ?" "It was all about pictures, and about horses, and about money, and about one other subject which enters into every row that I ever heard of." "And what is that, dear ?" asks the innocent lady, hanging on her husband's arm, and quite pleased to have led him to church and brought him thence.

"And what is it, that enters into every row, as you call it, Charles ?" "A woman, my love," answers the gentleman, behind whom we have been in imagination walking out from Charles Honeyman's church on a Sunday in June: as the whole pavement blooms with artificial flowers and fresh bonnets; as there is a buzz and cackle all around regarding the sermon; as carriages drive off; as lady-dowagers walk home; as prayer-books and footmen's sticks gleam in the sun; as little boys with baked mutton and potatoes pass from the courts; as children issue from the public-houses with pots of beer; as the Reverend Charles Honeyman, who has been drawing tears in the sermon, and has seen, not without complacent throbs, a Secretary of State in the pew beneath him, divests himself of his rich silk cassock in the vestry, before he walks away to his neighbouring hermitage--where have we placed it ?--in Walpole Street.

I wish St.Pedro of Alcantara could have some of that shoulder of mutton with the baked potatoes, and a drink of that frothing beer.

See, yonder trots little Lord Dozeley, who has been asleep for an hour with his head against the wood, like St.Pedro of Alcantara.
An East Indian gentleman and his son wait until the whole chapel is clear, and survey Lady Whittlesea's monument at their leisure, and other hideous slabs erected in memory of defunct frequenters of the chapel.
Whose was that face which Colonel Newcome thought he recognised--that of a stout man who came down from the organ-gallery?
Could it be Broff the bass singer, who delivered the "Red Cross Knight" with such applause at the Cave of Melody, and who has been singing in this place?
There are some chapels in London, where, the function over, one almost expects to see the sextons put brown hollands over the pews and galleries, as they do at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.
The writer of these veracious pages was once walking through a splendid English palace, standing amidst parks and gardens, than which none more magnificent has been seen since the days of Aladdin, in company with a melancholy friend, who viewed all things darkly through his gloomy eyes.
The housekeeper, pattering on before us from chamber to chamber, was expatiating upon the magnificence of this picture; the beauty of that statue; the marvellous richness of these hangings and carpets; the admirable likeness of the late Marquis by Sir Thomas; of his father, the fifth Earl, by Sir Joshua, and so on; when, in the very richest room of the whole castle, Hicks--such was my melancholy companion's name--stopped the cicerone in her prattle, saying in a hollow voice, "And now, madam, will you show us the closet where the skeleton is ?" The seared functionary paused in the midst of her harangue; that article was not inserted in the catalogue which she daily utters to visitors for their half-crown.

Hicks's question brought a darkness down upon the hall where we were standing.