I saw the ladies, though, after they were dressed, and that did me some good, particularly as the Queen of the South, Madam Le Vert, asked my opinion of her chaste, beautiful toilet, just as if she had faith in my judgment.
"Well, after the fortunate ones were gone, I went to my room to pout, and directly Mother Richards sent Johnny up to coax me, whereupon there ensued a bit of a quarrel, I twitting him about that ambrotype of a young girl, which Nell Tiffton found at the St.Nicholas, and which the doctor claimed, seeming greatly agitated, and saying it was very dear to him, because the original was dead.

Well, I told him of it, and said if he loved that girl better than me, he was welcome to have her.

'Lina Worthington had too may eligible offers to play second fiddle to any one.
"''Lina,' he said, 'I will not deceive you, though I meant to do so.

I did love another before ever I heard of you, a fair young girl, as pure, as innocent as the angels.

She is an angel now, for she is dead.