For it is said that one day Our Lord was walking with Sampietro in Paradise, as the Padrone may do with his Fattore, when after a while He said, not as complaining exactly but as stating a fact, "Sampietro, this place is going down!" Here Sampietro, who is always impetuous and knew very well what He meant, dared to interrupt, "Il Santissimo can't blame me," said he huffily.

"Well, I can't see what there is to laugh at," broke in Will, huffily.

No!" Will answered a little huffily.

"Well, I shan't do any good by sitting here," he said, a little huffily.

"Oh, but people should not shoot if they are so careless, surely!" "I beg your pardon, ma'am," said Mr. Dodd, huffily.

"We thought we should not get any dinner, Mrs. Gussie," she said, huffily.

" "Oh, in course, if ye put it that way," he returned, huffily, "I haven't got a word to say.

say I, turning sharply and huffily away; then, with a sudden recollecting and repenting myself, "May I come back, then?"

[Goes off huffily.

Arthur Miles turned his back upon Tilda, and would not budge from his boat; while Tilda seated herself huffily upon a half-decayed log by the cottage doorway, with 'Dolph beside her, and perused The Lady's Vade-Mecum.