Indeed, while we are on the subject, I may mention that I have ordered the bills.

_Professor and Madame St.Maw_--my Arabella will, I know, forgive my reverting to the name under which she won her maiden laurels--it cost me a pang, my dear Smiles, to reflect that the fame to be won here, the honour of having popularised HIM, here on the confines of his native Arden, will never be associated with the name of Mortimer.

_Sic vos non vobis_, as the Mantuan has poignantly observed.

But for the sake of the children-- and, by the way, how do my bantlings find themselves this morning?
Tol-lollish, I trust ?--for the sake of the children it was necessary, as we used to say with the Pytchley, to obscure 'the scent.

Talking of scent, Smiles, it might be advisable--what with the superphosphates and the onions--to take some counteracting steps, which your ingenuity may be able to suggest.