Philosophical and logical, truly!" "You seem to have acquired a little knowledge of men and women, my good friend, without encumbering yourself with a wife and children." "Would you like to go to the same school to which I went ?" asked Thurnall, with a look of such grave meaning that Frank's pure spirit shuddered within him.

"And I'll tell you this; whenever I see a woman nursing her baby, or a father with his child upon his knees, I say to myself--they know more, at this minute, of human nature, as of the great law of 'C'est l'amour, l'amour, l'amour, which makes the world go round,' than I am likely to do for many a day.

I'll tell you what, sir! These simple natural ties, which are common to us and the dumb animals,--as I live, sir, they are the divinest things I see in the world! I have but one, and that is love to my poor old father; that's all the religion I have as yet: but I tell you, it alone has kept me from being a ruffian and a blackguard.

And I'll tell you more," said Tom, warming, "of all diabolical dodges for preventing the parsons from seeing who they are, or what human beings are, or what their work in the world is, or anything else, the neatest is that celibacy of the clergy.

I should like to have you with me in Spanish America, or in France either, and see what you thought of it then.