" "How do you know it?" demanded Maud in a tone of resentment.

"Stern necessity," answered Maud with a smile.

THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD.James Hogg was perhaps the most remarkable man that ever wore the maud of a shepherd.

" Although Mike put a small silver snuff-box that Maud at once recognised as Robert Willoughby's property into the young lady's hand, nothing was more apparent than the circumstance that he was profoundly ignorant of the true meaning of what he was doing.

'And now, Mike,' says the majjor, says he, 'conthrive to see phratty Miss Maud by herself'" "Pretty Miss Maud!" interrupted the young lady, involuntarily.

The distance prevented Maud from discerning their countenances; but she could perceive the thoughtful, and as she fancied melancholy, attitude of the major, as, leaning on his fowling-piece, his lace was turned towards the Knoll, and his eyes were really riveted on the loop.

For bidding any to follow, Willoughby proceeded with Maud to the graves.

"What is Maud like?" he asked.

Where son?where t'other gal?" "Here," answered Willoughby, leading Maud within the hedge.

So completely was she accustomed to regard Robert and Maud as brother and sister, that even all which had passed produced no effect in unsettling her opinions, or in giving her thoughts a new direction.

It was destroyed by King Stephen after being held for the Empress Maud during a three months' siege.

He looked steadily at Lady Maud for a moment, then smiled faintly, looked away, and began to blow his little tune through his teeth again.

I shall set Maud on you to drag you down to Derbyshire in September,' he said.

For instance, what he had told Lady Maud about his engagement to poor Miss Bamberger did not quite agree with what he had said to Margaret on the steamer.