" "I am Lady Mary's goddaughter," said the girl.

You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this,Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?" "Explain, goddaughter.

" "And my charming young goddaughter," said Mr. Wrayburn plaintively, "down in Hertfordshire" ("Humbugshire, you mean, I think," interposed Miss Wren)"is to be put upon the cold footing of the general public, and is to derive no advantage from my private acquaintance with the Court dressmaker?"

146. LANGTON, Miss Jane (Bennet Langton's daughter), Johnson's goddaughter, iii. 210, 11. 3; iv. 146, 268; his letter to her, iv.

THACKERAY, W. M., Addison's Cato, quotations from, i. 199, n. 2; one failing, iv. 53, n. 4; History of the Newcomes quoted, ii. 300, n. 3; subscribed to the annuity for Johnson's goddaughter, iv.