Knowing that William is so hasty, and his boots are so thick, I trembled to think what a kick might do.

So, on coming here I left Bluff--that was his name--with Miss Smilecox." (A pause.) MRS.

DALE (looking up languidly).--"Well, my love ?" MISS JEMIMA.--"Will you believe it, I say, when I returned to Cheltenham, only three months afterwards, Miss Smilecox had seduced his affections from me, and the ungrateful creature did not even know me again?
A pug, too--yet people say pugs are faithful! I am sure they ought to be, nasty things! I have never had a gentleman dog since,--they are all alike, believe me, heartless, selfish creatures." MRS.

DALE.--"Pugs?
I dare say they are!" MISS JEMIMA (with spirit).-"MEN!--I told you it was a gentleman dog!" MRS.

DALE (apologetically).--"True, my love, but the whole thing was so mixed up!" MISS JEMIMA.--"You saw that cold-blooded case of Breach of Promise of Marriage in the papers,--an old wretch, too, of sixty-four.