Beautiful wives drop into some men's arms, ripe and ready, but I am not one of them." "Oh, don't despond! Your turn may come yet!" "I don't despond--I leave that to--but comparisons are odious." "Go on." "To Miss Rose Danton.

She is pining on the stem, at the near approach of matrimony, and growing as pale as spirit.

What is the matter with her ?" "You ought to know best.

You're a doctor." "But love-sickness; I don't believe there is anything in the whole range of physic to cure that.

What's this--a fishing-rod ?" "Yes," said Mr.Stanford, taking a more comfortable position on the grass.