"We've had many a jolly lark together; haven't we, Lill ?" "Certainly we have," said Lillie, affably.

"But come, darling," she added to Mrs.Follingsbee, "don't you want to be shown your room ?" "Go it, then, my dearie; and I'll toddle up with the fol-de-rols and what-you-may-calls," said the incorrigible Dick.

"There, wife, Mrs.
John Seymour shall go first, so that you shan't be jealous of her and me.

You know we came pretty near being in interesting relations ourselves at one time; didn't we, now ?" he said with another wink.
It is said that a thorough-paced naturalist can reconstruct a whole animal from one specimen bone.

In like manner, we imagine that, from these few words of dialogue, our expert readers can reconstruct Mr.
and Mrs.Follingsbee: he, vulgar, shallow, sharp, keen at a bargain, and utterly without scruples; with a sort of hilarious, animal good nature that was in a state of constant ebullition.