It was said that I bribed too; but to discuss that now would be out of place.

I feel sure that Smith must have written number three.

In fact he said those very words concerning me on the hustings." "Gladys," said Brandon, observing the child's deep attention, "it is right you should know that the brother-poet had written a tragedy on tin-tacks.

Your father reviewed it, and said no family ought to be without it." "But you didn't bribe father, and you didn't copy from Snooks, I am sure," said Gladys, determined to defend her father, even in his assumed character.
"What was the name of your _thing_, papa ?" asked Barbara.
"I don't know, my dear, I have not considered that matter." "It was called 'The Burglar's Betrothal,'" said Valentine.
"And do you think that Snooks really wrote that review ?" she continued, contemplating her father through her eyeglass, for she was shortsighted.
"If you ask my sincere opinion, my dear, I must say that I think he did not; but if some other man had signed it, I should have been sure.

Which now I never shall be." Here the door was slowly opened, and the portly butler appeared, bearing in his own hands a fine dish of potatoes; from the same plot, he remarked to John, with those that had obtained the prize.