So her raiment of violet amounts to a purely gratuitous advertisement of a permanently self-evident fact .-- And such a shade too, such a positively excruciating shade!" But here a movement upon the terrace served, indirectly, to put a term to his patter.

For Sir Charles Verity, raising his voice slightly in passing emphasis, turned and moved slowly towards the little company gathered at the tea-table.

His two companions followed, the shorter of them apparently making answer, the words echoing clearly in genial richness of affirmation across the intervening space--"And so it was, General, am I not recalling the incident myself?
Indeed you're entirely right." "Come," Damaris said, with a certain brevity as of command.
"And feel a worm ?" "No--come and speak to my father." "Ah! I shall feel a worm there too," the young man returned, an engaging candour in his smiling countenance; "and with far better reason, unless I am greatly mistaken.".