he asked, pushing out to greet them each in turn, and eyeing Mr. Smithson in some curiosity.

Other men came and fluttered round Lesbia, and women and girls exchanged endearing smiles and pretty little words of greeting with her, and envied her the brown frock and buttercups and Mr. Smithson at her chariot wheel.

om below as the curtain was going down,' said Maulevrier, shaking hands with the ladies and saluting Mr. Smithson with a somewhat supercilious nod.

'Do you care about staying for the end?' asked Mr. Smithson of Lesbia.

In 1846 Congress determined to devote this gift of Smithson to the founding and support of a museum.

What can have become of Mr. Smithson?' 'I have a shrewd suspicion that it is with Smithson as with poor Lady Kirkbank.' 'Do you mean that he is ill?' 'Precisely.' 'What, on a calm summer night, sailing over a sea of glass.

She felt as if a burden had been lifted from her soul, now that she was able to pay Mr. Smithson without waiting to ask Lady Maulevrier for the money.

If anything better had appeared in the prospect of her lifeif any worthier suitor had come forward, she would have whistled Mr. Smithson down the wind; but no worthier suitor had offered himself.

Drawn by Mr. Smithson for Lesbia's amusement, the scientific matron was undoubtedly 'good fun.'

'Lovely as your house is altogether, I think this river view is the best part of it,' said Lady Lesbia, as she strolled with Mr. Smithson on the terrace after dinner, dressed in Indian muslin which was almost as poetical as a vapour, and with a cloud of delicate lace wrapped round her head.