Reuben, although an excellent worker in business hours, is a student, or perhaps rather what one would call a scholar, whereas Walter is more a practical man of affairsdecidedly long-headed and shrewd.

" "Walter, there has been an explosion in the minea fearful explosion; the shaft has fallen in; there is no getting access to the mine, and all the poor souls confined there are in mortal peril.

" "Ah," said Mrs. Hornby in a slightly injured tone, "you think Walter is just an ordinary amateur; but if I were to show you some of the photographs he has taken you would really be surprised.

"I believed Walter to be quite a good young fellow.

" "Walter is your nephew, Walter Hornby?

But your gambler always thinks he is going to winthough you mustn't let me give you the impression that Walter is a gambler.

Walter was greatly affectedit took him by surprise: nothing in Aram's ordinary demeanour betrayed any facility to emotion; and he conveyed to all the idea of a man, if not proud, at least cold.

Such, too, was his character; for, with all his fine genius, Sir Walter would never have been so successful an author, had he not possessed so large a share of common sense, united to a business-like method of conducting his affairs, even those which perhaps I might venture to call the affairs of imagination.

Sir Walter is a professed clarifier of the age from the vulgar and still lurking old-English antipathy to Popery and Slavery.

Sir Walter in his poetry, though pleasing and natural, is a comparative trifler: it is in his anonymous productions that he has shewn himself for what he is!

" "I do not find your opinion at all incredible," said Thorndyke, with a smile, "even if Mr. Walter were quite a mercenary young manwhich, I take it, he is not.

Walter was his valet.

On the whole, Walter, judging from the newspaper pictures, Alma Willard is quite the equal of Vera Lytton for looks, only of a different style of beauty.

" Walter was a wig-maker by tradeassistant to Clarkson the elder.

My sisters were always stronger than I, and Walter was a regular athlete; but they went early, and I lived on."

"Emaline was Mr. Ben Robertson's cook, an' her darter, Callie, was his housekeeper, an' George an' Walter was mechanics.

And of these interests, and of this inflexible maintenance of them, John Walter was the most strenuous of supporters.

" Walter was a wig-maker by tradeassistant to Clarkson the elder.

They had not met until the previous evening, when Walter, having dined at the Devonshirethat comfortable old-world club in St. James's Street which was the famous Crockford's gaming-house in the days of the dandieshe had met his old friend in the strangers' smoking-room, the guest of a City stockbroker who was entertaining a party.