speak truth. Let us, then, leave Miss Hugonin to this innocent

diversion. The staidest of us are conscious of a brisk elation at

sight of a pretty face; and surely no considerate person will deny its

owner a portion of the pleasure that daily she accords the beggar at

the street-corner.

[XXXIII]

We are credibly informed that Time travels in divers paces with divers

persons--the statement being made by a lady who may be considered to

speak with some authority, having triumphantly withstood the ravages

of Chronos for a matter of three centuries. But I doubt if even the