There's the Dominie, for instance.

"Take it along and, when you get it all snuffed up, give it back to the Dominie here for me.

"He's got the jump on me, Dominie," complained the Little Red Doctor to me.

She was readingshe wrote the Bonnie Lassieall the books that the Dominie had listed for her, and she was being tutored by a school-teacher with blue goggles and a weak heart who lived at the same resort.

" "Thank you, Mr. Dominie," said Barbran gratefully.

"Dominie, you have a queer notion of this life and little faith in the next.

His head runs up into a spire, and, instead of a healthy man, merry and wise, he is some mad dominie.

Dickens would have given a touch of the grotesque to Grail's gentle but ungainly character; but at the end he would infallibly have rewarded him as Tom Pinch and Dominie Sampson were rewarded.

Tommy had behaved splendidly to him, and called him his dear preceptor, and yet the Dominie still itched to be at him with the tawse as of old.

The Dominie said fearfully: "I have no doubt that explains it, Miss Sandys.

"The spirit has all gone out of him; what am I afraid of?" reflected the Dominie, and he rose suddenly to make a speech, tea-cup in hand.

The Dominie coughed.

Most of them thought he was being accused of something vile, and the Dominie demanded, with a light heart, "Who is the woman?" while Mr. James had a pleasant feeling that the ladies should be requested to retire.

Mr. Cathro, you pain me by holding back; I assure you I esteem my old Dominie more than ever for the way in which you stuck up for Captain Ure, though you must see why I could not drink that gentleman's health.

Had Tommy died that week his old Dominie would have been very chary of what he said at the funeral.

" "I would tell him so," said the Dominie, "whether he had done it or not.

" "I admire brave men," she replied, "and he is one, is he not?" "You'll find him reasonable," said the Dominie, drily.

" By this time the dominie was endeavoring to pull the chair loose from the seat of his trousers.

"Guess I'll have to give you a hand, dominie," he said.

"Guess you'd better sit down, dominie," advised the captain.

There seemed a purple stile Which little yellow boys and girls Were climbing all the while Till when they reached the other side, A dominie in gray Put gently up the evening bars, And led the flock away. XXIII.

He, as an individual, is almost lost sight of in the imaginary world his genius has peopled; and most of his readers have a more vivid sense of the reality of Dominie Sampson, Jennie Deans, or any other of his characterizations, than they have of himself.

They know Dominie Sampson through Scott; they know Scott only through Lockhart.

"The dominie!

'At what hour?' asked the dominie.