" A curious phrase current in Devonshire for a young lady who jilts a man is, "She has given him turnips;" and an expressive one for those persons who in spite of every kindness are the very reverse themselves is this: "Though you stroke the nettle ever so kindly, yet it will sting you;" With which may be compared a similar proverb equally suggestive: "He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.

"If I were a man," continued the belle, "I would never think of a young woman who had once jilted a lover.

He also jilted Miss Havisham.

Yes, she had jilted himhad in all probability never loved him.

She had, unless rumor was badly at fault, jilted an appalling list of the striplings who believed that beard-growing and love-making were conventionally contemporaneous events.

They are my brothers" "Do you think you can jilt their sister, the girl you asked for as your wife before all the tribe, and escape their vengeance?

It was about a young girl who lived in the Harz Mountains, and who had given up her life to save her lover's soul; and he died, and met her spirit in the air; and then, in the last verse, he jilted her spirit, and went on with another spiritI'm not quite sure of the details, but it was something very sad, I know.

AU´DREY, a country wench, who jilted William for Touchstone.

"But anyhow Lady Jo couldn't talk, for she has just jilted Ivor Yardley the K. C. and gone to Paris to buy mourning.

So, in spite of her poor astonished parents, of her brothers, of all your vows and promises, you shortly after jilted the younger and married the elder sister.'

But with such a confederacy against her as that formed by her mother and Elinorwith a knowledge so intimate of Colonel Brandon's goodnesswhat could she do? As for Elinor, her self-control was at last rewarded, thanks to a strange volte-face on the part of Lucy Steele who, finding that Robert Ferrars had the money, married him and jilted his brother.

She had jilted the unlucky youth and sent him in utter recklessness on his intentionally suicidal ascent.

" As it turned out, Wickham, though he had not arrived at an intimacy which enabled him to jilt Elizabeth, yet most certainly transferred his attentions very shortly from her to a Miss King, who, by the death of her grandfather, had come into £10,000.