March is such a beastly untidy chap," he sighed; "he will leave his books around that way despite all I can say!"

" "If you hadn't been so confoundedly untidy" began Redwood.

The woman who owned it was, I am sorry to say, peculiarly untidy and dirty, and so were her children: so that I felt rather inclined to scoff at the piece of civilized vanity, which I should otherwise have greeted as a promising sign.