Madame Gilbert is a lady of the highest virtue.

GILBERT'S fanciful description of the "most susceptible Chancellor" is justified by the way in which the present occupant of the Woolsack and his predecessors vie with one another in the endeavour to secure the favour of the fair sex.

" "I have not many people to care for," answered John Saltram, "and Gilbert is a friend of long standing.

" Miss Fanny Gilbert is a warm-hearted, high-spirited girl, clever and ambitious, and disposed at first to look contemptuously on poor Arthur, whose humble labors appear in most dingy and sordid colors, when contrasted with the fair Fanny's gorgeous dreams.

Gilbert was a fiery youth of twelve, all for adventure.

The professional nurse had been dismissed before they left London, and Gilbert was now the invalid's only attendant.

GILBERT'S burglar up-to-date: "He loves to hear the Temperance Club a-gurgling.

Once, when Gilbert was a little boy, he had put his shoulder out of joint, and to save time his mother took him at once to the doctor's.

(Air: “Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.”) John Gilbert was a bushranger of terrible renown, For sticking lots of people up and shooting others down.

Gilbert was not a rich man, but was in a fair way to become a rich man; and the name of Fenton stood as high as in the palmiest days of his father's career.