The best known passage in Douglas is the speech beginning 'My name is Norval.'

We have it on good authority, that the Adirondack Mountains of New York, and the Grampian Hills of Scotland, where Norval was to feed his flocks, had already upheaved their bare backs from the boiling caldrons of the sea, thus stealing a march on the Alps and many other more famous mountains.

" Then Mrs. Keller came forward with"I hope you don't mind my taking her off, Mr. Norval?"

But Mrs. Keller saw the look of annoyance upon his face, and said, "But, Percy, Mr. Norval dislikes your going, and you're bound to stay.

"And I have been as good to that fellow the year he has lived with me as I could," thought Ross Norval as hour after hour he lay alone wanting everythingwater, the papers, a handkerchief.

What would you say, Ross Norval, if you knew that the last kiss I ever gave to any man was given you that cold, dark day they buried my father?

One day she said in a shy way, "Mr. Norval, if you will let James lay out your things, I will see what mending they need, and will sit here and do them, so you sha'n't spend so many hours alone.

Mr. Norval asked when the doctor had taken his last fee, pronouncing his patient cured.

"Why, Norval," said hethey were old acquaintances"you've won our bone of contention, after all.

Then to Ross; "Does she kiss you, Norval?"

And, Norval, I have a great favor to ask of you.

"You didn't think I was going to make you and Norval (I can't call you Cousin Ross yet, old fellowI hate you too bad, you know) cast your lines among my smoke-and-wine-scented traps, did you?" As she saw how exquisitely he had chosen everything, how delicately he had regarded every one of her tastes in his selection, and thought how little reason he had to be good to her, she turned quickly and put her arms about him.

Norval, I know you'll be good to our little girlbetter, likely as not, than the rest of us would have been had we got possession of her.

Society was not going to lose Ross Norval if he had made a fool of himself and married a little nobody.

Of course her cousins and their friends hated her: she had won their bonne louche, and the crimson of her plainness and poverty, of the having to "have Percy always around to please Uncle Rufus," was pink to the enormity of her being Ross Norval's wife.

" "To think of your ever getting married, Percy, and to Mr. Norval, of all men!" said Miss Leta Wilber.

I suppose you've found that out, Mr. Norval?" "Found what out?

Look what fools she's made of our boys for years, and Ross Norval, with all his splendid endowments, is just as bad.

" That's the way they talked, yet in a couple of weeks after each house had sent her an invitation to a large party"for you and Mr. Norval, dear Percy"and the invitation-cards stated the fact.

Will you greet Ross Norval's bride at the Wilber party to-night as the child you have trained and been so good to in the past, and who, ever honoring you, is still your loving child for the future?

Miss Jennie Barton and her cousin Laura gave a sweet duo, in rather a tearing style, Jennie being a fast young lady everyhow; another lady sang a Scottish ballad as if it had been manipulated by Verdi; then one of the gentlemen said, "Mr. Norval, I hope you will lay your commands on your wife to sing for us.

" While they listened to her, those careless men and women, they thought they began to understand why this little, plain girl had won Ross Norval.

"And that such a thing should come to pass, as Ross Norval in love with his own wife, is beyond beliefafter making love to everybody else's!"

Then she told him how lovingly she did this work, how kind scholarly men had been to her, and how eagerly they had sought to know her otherwise than by letter"Until, to-night, I bade them find Ross Norval's wife, and know the little girl who, shielded by his name, feared nothing any more.

SEE Otto, William N. RICHARDSON, RUPERT NORVAL.