"Don't I know Charlie Ferrola?
he wants her to get him into fashionable life, and knows the way to do it.

To think of that stout, middle-aged party imagining that Charlie Ferrola's going to die for her charms! it's too funny! How stout the dear old thing does get, to be sure!" [Illustration: MR.

CHARLIE FERROLA.] It will be observed here that our dear Lillie did not want for perspicacity.

There is nothing so absolutely clear-sighted, in certain directions, as selfishness.

Entire want of sympathy with others clears up one's vision astonishingly, and enables us to see all the weak points and ridiculous places of our neighbors in the most accurate manner possible.
As to Mr.Charlie Ferrola, our Lillie was certainly in the right in respect to him.