IN ST.

PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.
Miss Slowcum was right in saying that she was very particular with regard to her company.

She prided herself on having select taste.

She thought it well to assume distant airs to the other inmates of Penelope Mansion--Mrs.Dredge she thought quite beneath her notice, Mrs.Mortlock was slightly more tolerated, but Miss Slowcum never really unbent to either of these ladies.

As she said to herself, she could never forget that she came of the Slowcums of -- --shire that her father had been Captain Slowcum of the Royal Navy, and that, all things considered, her true position in society was with the county folk.