"TRAIN UP A CHILD," &c.
Enter Fair Daughter of the House with the Village Carpenter. "MAMMA, YOU ALWAYS TOLD ME THAT KIND HEARTS WERE MORE THAN CORONETS, AND SIMPLE FAITH THAN NORMAN BLOOD, AND ALL THAT?"
Lady Clara Robinson (née Vere de Vere). "CERTAINLY DEAR, MOST CERTAINLY!"
Fair Daughter. "WELL, I'VE ALWAYS BELIEVED YOU; AND JIM BRADAWL HAS ASKED ME TO BE HIS WIFE, AND I'VE ACCEPTED HIM. WE'VE ALWAYS LOVED EACH OTHER SINCE YOU LET US PLAY TOGETHER AS CHILDREN!"
[Her Ladyship forgets, for once, the repose that stamps her caste.
THE McGLADSTONE;
OR, BLOWING THE BUGLE.
(Fragments from the latest (Midlothian) version of "The Lord of the Isles.")
McGLADSTONE rose—his pallid cheek