This good person immediately pushed her with some vigor into the arms of the portly neighbor on her left, who exclaimed, in a cross voice-- "Lor' sakes! my dear, sit upright, do." "I hope the young person will soon get out," exclaimed the other neighbor.

"I call it downright unconscionable to crowd up Christian women like this.

Might I make bold to inquire, miss, when you are thinking of alighting ?" "I am going to Paternoster Row," said Jasmine, in a meek voice.

"I do not think I am very far from there now." "Oh, no, miss! we have only to go down Newgate Street, and there you are.

It's a queer place, is Paternoster Row, not that I knows much about it." "A mighty bookish place," took up the other neighbor "they say they are all bookworms that live there, and that they are as dry as bits of parchment.