To lose a heavy wager is provoking enough--but to lose a pretty mistress is the devil." "I have lost neither yet," replied Wyvil, who had completely recovered his spirits, and joined in the general merriment occasioned by the foregoing occurrence.

"I have been baffled, not defeated.

What say you to an exchange of mistresses?
I am so diverted with your adventure, that I am half inclined to give you the grocer's daughter for Disbrowe's wife.

She is a superb creature--languid as a Circassian, and passionate as an Andalusian." "I can't agree to the exchange, especially after your rapturous description," returned Parravicin, "but I'll stake Mrs.Disbrowe against Amabel.

The winner shall have both.