It is the good woman of the inn who offers something to her curate: "'What can I do for you, Monsieur le Curé?' asked the landlady, as she reached down from the chimney one of the copper candlesticks placed with their candles in a row. '

Johnson reported his action to Boswell, as follows: "I looked into it and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return; and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds.

She did not exactly hesitate, but she was so slow in beginning to speak, that Miss Panney, who was untying her bonnet-strings, had time to add, reflectively, "Yes, they are sure to find her a good landlady.

He would therefore be able to pay his landlady: he smiledone of his landladies!

"Nothing much," replied the landlady.

We stopped to change horses at Bernay, and I soon perceived our landlady was a very ardent patriot.

Besides, we often visit your landlady, so if it's pleasant for you to see us, you can call in there.

He says nothing but.' There was a tap at the door, and a hurried tremulous voice begged the landlady to go upstairs.

But I have my own idea about the case,' added the landlady, with a sigh.

Seeing how pale she looked, Jack tenderly suggested a rest on the old sofa, and a wet handkerchief on her hot forehead, while he got the good landlady to send her up a cup of tea.

(For the Mirror.) "Tais-toi, Louise," exclaimed the landlady of a small but neat auberge at to her daughter, a sweet child, about seven years of age, who, playing with a little curly French dog, was sitting on a three-legged stool, humming a trifling chanson which she had gleaned from a collection of ditties pertaining to an old woman, who, when the landlady might be busily engaged, attended the infant steps and movements of Louise.

After breakfast, the following morning, he called the landlady aside and said he forgot the day before to show her a fancy quilt of superior workmanship, and if she would only look at it he would be satisfied, as it was one of great beauty.

"Wot's he making that row about?" ses the landlady.

The remembrance of him haunts us all,almost as his ghost haunts his kind landlady.

Having helped her landlady into bed, she ran down-stairs to try and appease the indignant lodgers, who protested, and with truth, that they had rung, rung, rung, and no one answered the bell; that they wanted tea, that Miss Webster had undertaken to wait on them, that they were not waited on, and that accordingly they would seek other lodgings on the morrow, they would, &c., &c. "Miss Webster, ma'am, is very ill to-night.

A few hours after the conversation, the fellow brought in from his waggon some boxes of fancy goods, and endeavoured to induce the landlady to purchase.

I had more and more difficulty in keeping the fat landlady at arm's length, and the nasty child was well beaten one day for lingering about my door.

During this colloquy, pure business on his side and mixed business and sentiment on Mrs. Halligan's, Sylvester did not once look the landlady in the eye.

Less than a year after the events narrated, he again rode up to the lone hostelry, which was not so lonely now, however; for houses were growing up around it, and it took boarders and rang a dinner-bell, and maintained a landlady as well as a landlord, besides.

He was fortunate enough not to meet his landlady on the stairs.

To complete the group, nothing is wanting but to mention the landlady, a plump, rosy dame of thirty-five, who was seated by the schoolmaster's side, apparently listening to some sage remarks which that little gentleman was throwing out for her edification.

'His feet are not cloven,' observed the landlady.

Undoubtedly the visits of lairds and great noblemen at her bar were less frequent than formerly, but all the trades-people in town, all the sailors in port, from the Gulf of Tay to the Gulf of Forth, still patronized the pretty landlady.

I confess I pitied our landlady.

In the morning I presented my compassionate landlady with two of the four brass buttons which remained on my waistcoat; the only recompense I could make her.