Was not Jemima's fortune about L4000 ?" PARSON (dreamily, for he is relapsing fast into his interrupted revery).--"Ay--ay--I dare say." MRS.

DALE.--"And she must have saved! I dare say it is nearly L6000 by this time; eh! Charles dear, you really are so--good gracious, what's that!" As Mrs.Dale made this exclamation, they had just emerged from the shrubbery into the village green.
PARSON.--"What's what ?" MRS.

DALE (pinching her husband's arm very nippingly).

"That thing--there--there." PARSON.--"Only the new stocks, Carry; I don't wonder they frighten you, for you are a very sensible woman.

I only wish they would frighten the squire.".