The exhilarating effect of the genial Comic Paper man upon FLORA did not, indeed, pass away, until she and Miss CAROWTHERS were in their appointed quarters under the roof of Mrs. SKAMMERHORN, whither they went immediately upon the arrival of the elder spinster from Bumsteadville.

"Oh, no, no!" cried the shocked and shrinking spinster.

" "Tira," said Laura, with a tearful and blushing cheek held up to the good spinster's, "kiss me, won't you?you never have.

" Mrs. St. Clair was not very much surprised at this speech, for Patty had told her of Miss Daggett's summary method of dismissing people; and so, with a sweet smile and a bow, the fashionable matron left the eccentric and indignant spinster.

unmarried woman, spinster; maid, maiden, virgin, feme sole [Fr.], old maid; bachelor girl, girl-bachelor; nun.

It was better, she reflected, far better, that she should go into the dull and dreary exile of an English village, with the unexciting companionship of Aunt Emily, an ascetic spinster of the mid-Victorian era, and make pretence of pique with Walter, than to reveal to him the shameful truth.

She wondered what she should do with herself for the rest of the afternoon, and finally, finding that she was not wanted by her grandmother until afternoon tea, she set out upon a round of visits to her favourite cottagers, to bid them a long farewell as a spinster.

She was a gray-haired, wrinkled spinster woman when she went into Captain Melville's house; but their life was by no means without romance.

Edward FitzGerald adds to this his own note: "Miss Ridout I rememberan elegant spinster; friend of my mother's.

" "Oh, that's nothing," said a venerable spinster of twenty-one.

Hopes and Fears; or, Scenes from the Life of a Spinster.

" "Not all, Mattie; you forget the solitary spinster.

A musical, lady-like laugh, quite in contrast to the demonstrative utterances outside, had just broken forth, in response to one of Sin Saxon's brightest speeches, when through the adjoining apartment came suddenly upon them the unlooked-for apparition of "the spinster."

She was won to a perception of the really best in life,that which this plain old spinster, with her "scrap of lace and a front," had found worth living for after the golden days were over.

Spinster or widow, she has that inherent purpose of every woman to be, if she can, the mistress of the house in which she lives.

" A spinster nearing forty, living thus, must have her memoriesone precious memory, at leastor she dies.

And when at last there was enough she had come to this Rome against the protests of the fussy English father and the spinster English sister.

There was no going back to the fussy father or the spinster sister.

" Soured Spinster.

Spinster dinner.

To this end she frequents the houses of widows and heiresses, vaunts the docility of his temper, and the greatness of his expectations, enlarges on the solitude of widowhood, or the dependence and insignificance of a spinster; and these prefatory encomiums usually end in the concerted introduction of the Platonic "ami.

Mrs Humphrey Ward is not the only opponent of women's suffrage to state that the atmosphere of girls' schools suffers from the preponderating spinster element.

She explained, further, that he was rather softhearted, while she was a business woman; also that the royal commissary's rolls did not comprehend such a thing as a spinster, andincidentallythat living by principle was rather out of fashion in the province just then.

But I console myself with imagining that the pretty Chee-chee spinster who comes every morning from Raneemoody Gully in a green tonjon, and makes romantic eyes at me through the silk curtains, missed the Boston gentleman with the gray moustache, and was lonesome.

She thought he wanted her to sit between melancholy white faced Mrs. Fuller and a bony spinster in a poke-bonnet whom he called Miss Slater; but Cecil, concluding that this last could have no vote, and that the Vicarage was secure, felt free to indulge herself by getting back to Lady Tyrrell, who had scarcely welcomed her before exclaiming, "Mrs. Duncombe, I did not know you were returned.