There may be one exceptionwe mean Sir Pitt Crawley, senior; it is possible, nay, we hardly doubt, that this baronet was closer drawn from individual life than anybody else in the book; but granting that fact, the animal was so unique an exception, that we wonder so shrewd an artist could stick him into a gallery so full of our familiars.

As soon as he and Hewitt had found one another the baronet hurried the detective into his dog-cart.

" Hewitt laid his hand on the baronet's arm.

I think, Sir James," Hewitt added, turning to the baronet, who was standing by the door"I think we will see the other room and take a walk outside the house, if you please.

" "Now you will see at once, Sir James," Hewitt pursued, with an affable determination to win the baronet back to good-humor"you will see at once that, if a ladder had been used in Mrs. Heath's case, anybody looking from either of these rooms would have seen it.

Now, then, our hero depended solely upon the crabbed old uncle and Miss Helen Convolvulus; the former, though a baronet and a satirist was a banker and a man of business:he looked very distastefully at the Hyperian curls and white teeth of Mr. Ferdinand Fitzroy.

SIR ROGER CHARLES DOUGHTY TICHBORNE, BARONET.

BERKSHIRE LADY (The), Miss Frances Kendrick, daughter of sir William Kendrick, second baronet; his father was created baronet by Charles II.

BERKSHIRE LADY (The), Miss Frances Kendrick, daughter of sir William Kendrick, second baronet; his father was created baronet by Charles II.

BINKS (Sir Bingo), a fox-hunting baronet, and visitor at the Spa. Lady Binks, wife of sir Bingo, but before marriage Miss Rachael Bonnyrigg.

" "You juggling villain!" said the baronet; "this is some legerdemain trick of yours to get off from the performance of your promise, as you have so often done before.

This was at once opened by the baronet, and appeared to be filled with coin.

Her birth is thus set down by her father, in what is called the "Barjorg MS.": "At the pleasure of the Almighty God, my daughter Anna Laurie was borne upon the 16th day of December 1682 years, about six o'clock in the morning, and was baptized by Mr. Georgeminister of Glencairn," Her father was Sir Robert Laurie, first baronet, and her mother was Jean Riddell.

Sir Emilius is a descendant of Sir Walter, third baronet and brother of Annie.

[Footnote 24: 'John Dryden:' this poem was written in 1699; the person to whom it is addressed was cousin-german to the poet, and a younger brother of the baronet.

Sir Lyon Dilsford, too, was in the picture; but Varick felt a sudden pang of sympathy for the landless baronet.

"Old Burnaby would not think of allowing her to marry a penniless baronet," he said smiling.

The present baronet's name is Sir Antony; it is a pretty name, I think.

He was brother to the then baronet, Sir Thomas Esmonde, of Co. Wexford.

GRIERSON, SIR ROBERT, OF LAG, a notorious persecutor of the Covenanters, whose memory is still regarded with odium among the peasants of Galloway; was for some years Steward of Kirkcudbright; was in 1685 made a Nova Scotia baronet, and awarded a pension (1655-1733).

The world has instinctively selected Sir Roger de Coverley as the truest of all the creations of Addison's imagination; and it sheds clear light on the fineness of Addison's nature that among the four characters in fiction whom English readers have agreed to accept as typical gentlemen,Don Quixote, Sir Roger de Coverley, Henry Esmond, and Colonel Newcombe,the old English baronet holds a secure place.

The haughty baronet, the instant he was made aware of the nature of his son's intimacy with the rector's daughter, packed the young man off to the continent on his travels.

The Reverend John Hayley and his beautiful Clara were as proud as the baronet, and extremely indignant that it should be thought either of them wished to entrap or delude Arthur Kingston into an unequal or ineligible marriage.

The present baronet, a narrow-minded tyrannical man, afforded by his unpopularity good opportunity to old Ralph Somers to induce others to join him in his schemes of mischief and revenge.

" "Have the goodness to walk out of this house," said the baronet to Susan.