The amount of labor performed by the latter in a day would be the ploughing of a soane, about two-tenths of an acre.

Mr. Soane's Designs for entrances to the Parks and the western part of London, (which we alluded to in our No. 360,) are likewise here.

It was the third fascinated him: 'September 19th,' it ran, 'at the Bee in Steep Street, Julia, daughter of Anthony and Julia Soane of Estcombe, aged three, and buried the 21st of the month.'

It was a copy of the attestation of birth 'of Julia, daughter of Anthony Soane, of Estcombe, England, and Julie his wife'; the date, August, 1747; the place, Dunquerque.

He wondered miserably why he had asked what did not in the least matter; since, if she were not a Soane, it mattered not who she was.

And that said, Soane proceeded to explain to Mr. Fishwick, who had answered not a word, that the rogues had got into hiding; but that by means of persons known to Mr.

'Yes, yes, man,' Soane said.

He gasped and with a groan but no articulate word fell forward in Soane's arms.

'He is behind with Sir George Soane.

'I am not Julia Soane?

'Two days ago I found, by accident, in a church at Bristol, the death certificate of theof the child.' 'Julia Soane?' 'Yes.'

' Mr. Fishwick, standing, dogged and downcast, by the window, did not say what he had lost, but his thoughts went to his old mother at Wallingford and the empty stocking, and the weekly letters he had sent her for a month past, letters full of his golden prospects, and the great case of Soane v. Soane, and the grand things that were to come of it.

Lady Chatham compressed her lips with evident annoyance as she took her stand behind her husband's chair; it was plain from the glance she cast at Soane that she resented the presence of a witness.

'Sir George Soane is there?' 'Yes.' 'Sir George,' the Earl said with an evident effort, 'I am sorry I cannot receive you better.'

'But before he is admitted,' the physician continued diffidently and with a manifest effort, 'may I say a word, my lord, as to the position in which this places Sir George Soane?'

'But your lordship is versed in Sir George Soane's affairs, and knows that he must now go to his wife almost empty-handed.

And that only concerns me!' Sir George Soane bit his lip.

Sir!' Lord Chatham said at lastSir George Soane, with his eyes on the floor and a deep flush on his face, seemed to be thunderstruck by this sudden change of front'it appears to me that you are a very honest man!

Sir George, you have nothing to say, I take it?' 'No, I thank you, my lordnothing here,' Soane answered vaguely.

The physician took care to hide his real motive and his distrust of Soane's discretion under a show of heartiness.

Nor to Sir George Soane himself, when he alighted five days later before The George Inn at Wallingford, did the offer seem the light and easy thing, 'Of smiles and tears compact,' it had appeared at Marlborough.

'And it has been accepted,' Soane continued, smiling at his dismay.

It was formally directed after the fashion of those days 'To Mr. Peter Fishwick, Attorney at Law, at Wallingford in Berkshire, by favour of Sir George Soane of Estcombe, Baronet.' 'Lord save us, 'tis an honour,' the attorney muttered.

Many of his designs for furniture were carried out by Gillows; there is a good collection of his original drawings in the Soane Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields.

SOANE, SIR JOHN, English architect, who left his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields with art collection to the nation at his death in 1837.