Afterward, in tlie commons, the she had grasped more tjhan I ever one of my nieces for a violin lesson in been given full in his face when Mike SHUTTING PARLIAMENT. Bpeaker read the speech all over again, my house, "if I did not mind. Hurriedly had called. two Radicals, Quinn and Howell, By degrees my little home became I had ^he piano rescued from Jnt flow the British LegliU'w-e 1 Vnmltt4 "Miss Hannah Grey not at home? Every'one Is the better for having a iK -4 keeping their hats on, and business the useful rendezvous of all the family. np stairs and carried into my little to Ban Down. You are sure?" he had asked incredulously. was ended. The tbin-legged Sergeant-W, My hall was many a' time filled with front snuggery and just as it was put London Letter. defined position, and I sometimes at-Arms walked off with the big gold-M forbidding-lookmg females, all unsunv into place by the awkward but willing "Quite sure, sir my h'orders wAj? The English Parliamentary machine fancy mine must be the "good creature" mace,.the Speaker went through the^! moned by me, but "come by appointment' helpers we,had caught a few moments' that Miss Hannah, pertickler, didn^ has^at last been allowed of the family. annual hand-shaking performance, ia^f to se Mrs. Grey about the notice, my niece arrived, and with her wish to see no one who might call. Mr. to run 'down, and its different Jt is a large and scattered family which nOIrishmen joined this year, and," cook's place, mum and presently a came a attractsd, graceful lady-like girl, whose Grey, sir? Mr. Grey is out." me greatly wheels and springs. Tories, Liberals, ,in a few moments dusters and scrub-! cab would pull up with a jeik and looks The story had taken long to tell, And gives ample scope for every kind women entered into lengthy posses-j|^ my sister-in-law would bustle in.droppina "Ruth, this is Aunt Hannah," said but I hung upon every word of it, and and Parnellites are off to recuperate of usefulness. Time was when I was session of the Parliament buildings. brown paper parcels from her my niece. "You didn't mind, did you, as it came to an end the honest loving and get in WOTking order for the next the spoilt child of it but years have fH arms. Aunt Hannah? We thought you would The session now closed has been the grey eyes looked full in mine, and my winding up. Parliament, of course, hurried on, and the bright promise "So sorry, dear, I had no time to not and Ruth plays my accompaniments hardest within living memory. Thef 4 hands were once more imprisoned. stops work when it is tired and feels write,as baby's teeth bothered him so, so well. We always play together House has been in session thirty-threef was early nipped in the bud by the "Yau know my story now, my darling but I knew yon wouldn't mind." now." weeks, during which time the members! inclined to do so, but there is a Parliamentary if 1 thought that you couldthat death of my dear parents, privileged Hardly any of the undesirable looking I had been so long away from the have had but three weeks vacation.f you would fiction that the Queen to pass away within twenty-four andTv women ever answered so the same old home that I had fallen out of the There have been 422 divisions, "Blessyou! She won't mind," broke stops it, and many humorous forms hours of each other. ceremony was repeated many a time. knowledge of the young people's sittings into early hours of morning 1 in upon us in hoarsely confidential and ceremonies are gone through with friends but from Ruth's looks, was I did not mind the women so much, have been the rule. The Government As I left the churchyard where the tones, and springing up we faced round glad she should be one of them, whoever but the out-of-place men servants, I to lend a color of reality to this an* has only passed into law six of the 1* toward the window whence came the un shone softly down upon their undivided she might be. own, were a trial to me. Frenchmen, fifteen bills which they proposed to startling sounds. o^ cient fiction.. I will give an idea grave, and strove to realize Italians, Germans, Irishmen, all and put through at tne opening of the session. The violin master came, and the Mike's protecting arm was round what the ceremony of" dismissal cail- that henceforward those true and sundry. They stood in rows, blocking From their point of view their lesson gave me intense pleasure. me in an instant, and Polly swinging ed prorogation, was like. up my little hall, and had been great work has been the passing tender hearts were sharers in the Ruth's accompaniment was perfect violently head downward from the The noble Lords were assembled in i summoned by my niece Edith,to whom of the Coercion bill, after a forty-four and as the violin was being carefully ring inside his cage, shrieked aloud. -glorious sunshine of eternal day, I their house, a chamber peculiarly her mother had in most cases thrown days' fight with the Irish membars, wiped and restored to its case, I begged "HannahV Hannah! You don't mind, adapted as a background for looked into the cold hard face of my the "Morning Post" and a heap of during which the new word, "Clos- her to "play me somethingany do you?" gorgeous flummery. It is bigger eldest brother and knew that the days halt penny cards, saying, "write to ure," became the mo3t widely known thingwhatever she loved bestMendelssohn And this time I didn't.Murray's than the House of Commons and infinitely of sympathetic love in my old heme any likely ones, and tell them to meet of any parliamentary expression. for choice if she would." Magazine. more resplendent, with its me to-morrow. Aunt Hannah won't The great work, of the session, from One after another she played my bestloved iff were over and done with for me. rows of red leather benches and brilliantly mind, and baby wants me now." the home rule standpoint, has been old friends, and I turned impatiently colored windows. The throne, Robert was not unkind or unjust, but the hard fight made against the bill, That little trouble, however, was when the footman opened How to Address the Ruler of the a huge mass of carving and gilding, sympathy was a quality utterly wanting and the reducing of the Government, put an end to in this wise. One of the the door and said, a gentleman had United Slates--ALittle History. which is usually hidden under a baize in his composition, and if he was which announced itself to be a strong men turned out to have been a notorious railed for the ypung lady with Miss covering, was exposed to view for *he From St. Nicholas. si and resolute one, good for twenty burglar,and an attempt was made Grey." just and fair toward others, what on occasion, and so were two little It was not at all strange that, after years, to a disorganized and dismayed on my house, which failed, owing to "My uncle," said Ruth, apologetically. earth could others want more, in thrones, one on either side of the bi? their sad experience under monarchical conglomeration of queer political the promptitude with which Ailsiehad one, which mimic its gilded richness^ Heaven's name? he would ask impatiently. rule, the early Americans should compounds. struck a light in the basement, whilst "Pray ask him to come in," I said, and are intended for the Prince of have disliked everything that savoz*ed tne footman locked himself securely in and the next moment Mike stood Wales and the consort of the sovereign. the pantry. of royalty. This spirit found expression Ah, well, justice is much but love ODce more before me. He bowed a All things beingready, the Lord The Beginnings of a Poet. in the constitution itself. It was little shyly, and I, with my back to Robert was very kind about this, Chancellor appears, gorgeo'us beyond and sympathy, what are they not W. H. Rideing in St. Nicholas. distinctly provided that "No title ol the window, stood spellbound and and peremptorily forbade any more power of man to describe, in his flowing worth in all our lives, from the highest silent. nobility shall be granted by the United Whittier began to rhyme very early appointments of the kind being made. robes of scarlet and ermine. He lady in the land, whose sympathy States." The question was raised and kept his gift a secret from all, except Yes, it was Mikehuge, winsome He would see all men servants at his does not sit upon the woolsack as usual, never fails in time of need, down to hia. oldest sister, feeling that his Mikeand I must greet him as best I as to what "titles it will be proper to own club in the future. for the throne is uncovered, and, father, who was a prosaic man, would might. annex to the offices of President and So my life flowed evenly on for a the little school child, who wall spare although the Queen is net there, etiquette think that he was wasting time. He "Mr. Vivian," I faltered, "I-fl had vice president of the United States il year or two, and my nephews and demands that some show of a few precious crumbs of cake for the wrote under the fence, in the attic in no idea it was you." nieces came and went, and my doors any other than those given in the constitution?" reverence be made to the chair on hungry robin in its path? the barnwherever he could escape Two huge strides brought him to flew open to them heartily. which she would sit if present therefore, and this matter was deemed My other brothers and sisters were observation and as pen and ink were my side. a low, humble little bench, suggestive of sufficient importance to receive "Aunt Hannah," said Bobby one all married and scattered over the not always available he sometimes "Hannah!" heshouted "Miss Grey! of a school form, except that day, as herushedin laden with an enormous the attention ot a special joint committee w^rld, and Robert's eldest children used chalk, and even charcoal. Great Why, I was sent to Mrs. Sinclair's! it is red, is placed before the hamper, "you won't mind this of both houses. This committee were but a few years younger than was the surprise ol the famfly when Have I come to the wrong house?" railing around the throne, and standing here just while I'm having reported that the President should *nyself. the youngest of their father's some of his verses were unearthed, The yourig people flew to him openmouthed upon this the mighty Lord luncheon, will you? It's only a badger be addressed as "his excellency." The generation. literally unearthed from undera heap about this wonderful thing, Chancellor squats, with his scarlet a fellow has given me to take home. senators would not agree to the & For some years I lived on in the of rubbish a garret, but his- father and chattered mercifully for me, till I robes flowing out all around the floor. It's awfully jolly if you'd like to have report. A committee of conference 4ear old home, and strove to be of frowned upon these evidences- of the had recovered my balance a little. After the Lord Chancellor there it out." was then appointed, and reported^ what use I could. No one scrupled to bent of his mind, not out of unkindness, From time to time I felt his eye upon marched in four Royal Commissioners "No, thanks," I answered, with my "that, in the opinion of the committee, gi\re assent in make use of me, I am bound to say, but because he doubted tne sufficiency me, and grew a trifle hot and angry specially appointed to pocket handkerchief to my nose "we it will be proper thus to address and by degrees the family motto seemed of the boy's education for a under it. Why should he look at the Queen's name to the bills passed. can stand the hamper down in the to be: "Aunt Hannah will do it. the President: 'His highness, literary life, and did not wish to inspire me in that way? .He had been married These Commissionersthe Marquis of area. It isn't exactly sweet, you know, She won't mind." the President of the United States of him with! hopes which might for years, and Iwell I had settied Lothain, Earl Brownlow, Viscount Bobby." Did she mind? Sometimes I think America, and Protector ot their liber- never be fulfilled. into my old maid waysand I Cross, and Lord Stauley of Prestonwere "Not sweet! Why it's only a badger, she did. ties.' The members of the house would had |got over it," as the saying goes. arrayed in scarlet and ermine His sister had faith in him, nevertheless, and I can't stay long, because my The young ones were growing up, consent to nothing of the kind. The likewise, fully as grandly as the Chan* and without his knowledge As if we ever lost "the marks of that train goes at 3, don't you know." and to them my few additional years result of the whole matter is shown in cellor, but they wore cocked hats, she sent one of his poems to the editor which once had been." "But where's Tim?" I asked, looking constituted, if not old age, at least the resolution passed by the senate while the Chancellor wore the judicial of the Free Press, a newspaper beyond him to the empty hansom. As they all trooped out together, he advanced middle ago. Little did they on the 14th of May, 1789, which held. flat cap. The four noble scarlet lords published in Newburyport. Whittier turned back at the door, and grasping think, while their flimble feet whirled crowded on to a little bench, two on was helping his father to repair a "Oh! by-the-by, I forgot," he answered my hand tightly said, "why did you to Aunt Hannah's playing(I could It would be proper to annex a respectable either side of the Chancellor, and all stone wall by the roadside when the promptly. "Tim's sickening say 'not at home,' nine long years play, and for many reasons threw my title to the office of President five together produced an effect which earner flung a copy of the paper to for the measles, they think, so mother heart into doing my best for their of the United States but the dimmed the splendor of the stained him, and, unconscious that anything thought he had better not go home "I didn't!" I exclaimed, indignantly, dance music)little did they think, I Senate, desirous of preserving harmony glass windows, and almost eclipsed of his was in it, he opened it and but as they won't keep him at the old in a stifled voice, "you never came." say, how my own shoes were twitching with the house of representatives, the gilded throne below which they glanced up and down the columns. Blazer's," he continued, as he flung "Didn't I?" he answered, and then under the piano With a longing to where the practice lately observed in crouched. All this while a gentleman His eves fell on some verses called himself cheerily into an armchair in he was gone. *e given a chance of a turn myself. presenting an address to the President all in black, with a cocked hat and a "The Exile's Departure." the sitting room, "he is to follow by That night I slept not at all. Backward One night I overheard a s'im young was without the addition of titles, black stick in his hand, was roving Fond scenes, which delighted my youtfuhl the next train, and mother wrote and forward that refrain rang in Guardsboy murmur to my niece: think it proper, lor the present, about at a convenient distance. existence. that she was sure you wouldn't mind my ears. "Didn't I?" "Didn't I?" "But, I say, won't your aunt be to act in conformity with the practice "Black Rod" was called out, and this With feelings of sorrow I bid ye adieu if he came straight to you, but I was Oh Mike, oh, laithful-hearted Mike, "tired, playing so long?" A lasting adieu for now, dim in the distance. mournful person, whose full tide is of that house: Therefore to ask you, don't you know." have I been wronging you all these "Tired! Oh, no, she won't mind," Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Resolved, Thut the present address years? Did you come, did you?and Here I burst out laughing, and Bobby The shores of Hibernia recede from my responded Edith. "She hkes it." advanced. He was ordered to summon be: "To the Presiden of the United I never knew it-^-and now it is too looked critically but approvingly view. I bent my head over the piano and the Speaker of the lower House States," without addition of title. Farewell to the cliffs, tempest-beaten and late. at me, with both hands on his knees. gulped down the choke that almosb and the faithful Commons to appear at That resolution has never been disturbed, gray. "I say, Aunt Hannah," tie blurted Does she love you, I wonder, as she overpowered me as I steadily mai ked the bar of the Lords, and immediately, and there is no legislative authority Farewell to the village and sail-shadowed out, "I'm never sure about you. didas I do? God help me, I must time in that valse tune of many memories. with an solemnity, trotted off. Soon bay, for any other address than Sometimes I think you are seventy, live it down and crush it under foot, Up before the eyes of my memory The forest-crowded hill and' the waterwashed after he appeared among the Commons, the one so adopted. High-sounding and sometimes you look seventeen but for this one night I will allow myself strand. lose that evening, seven years before, bowing lowly but haughtily, titles are hardly in good taste in a that's what you look now. I don't the joy of knowing that he did upon which my future lite had His eyes swam, it was his own poem, and summoned them to follow republic. believe you're half as old-maidish as comehe did comer the rest I cannot seemed to hinge. I was twenty then the first he ever had in print. him. Mr. Isaaeson was just asking a the girls think you." even guess at. and had been for two years an inmate "What is the matter with thee?" Burdette Finds a Strange Barber. question of the Home Secretary, but of my brother's home. I was twentyseven "Thank you, Bobby," Isaid, kissing his father demanded, seeing how Happy, miserable, restless, and yet it was not answered, for respect to now, and wasstill considered too his jolly fat cheek "I don't feel like dazed he was but though ha resumed soothed, I came down next morning, the Lords demands that all other "Your beard is very soft and easy young to have a home of my own by seventy yet, a,nd what a dear old his work on the wall, he could not and found I could settle down to business shall be suspended when to cut," remarked the barber, passing mv elder relations, too old for young boy you will be when I am! But now speak, and he had to steal aglanc at nothing in the way of business. The Black Rod appears. A sigh of relief his trusty scimeter across the cheek lady amusements by the younger generation. about Tim. I was going to have a the paper again and again before he piano stood where it had been placed went up from the occupants of all the of the condemned man. The victim party to-night, and measles won't could convince himselt that he was the day before for the girls, and after benches. It meant the end of their gasped, but was silent. "You usually do well with that." not dreaming. SureOiioughj the poem many vain efforts to attend properly So I steadily played on, and my long session. shave yourself, do you not?" asked was there with his mitie at the foot to writing, which ought to have been thoughts floated away backward to But it had to do, in as much as there the Headsman, raising his face and The Speaker go down from his of it"W., Haverhill, J'ine-1, 1826 done, I wandered up to it, and sat me that evening I have hinted at. I saw was no time to put off anybody, and breathing high above the doomed chair and paced with dignified tread, and better still, the editorial notice: down listlessly, tiying to pick up the once more a small, dark-haired girl, "the party" got as far as my closed one's head. The unhappy man confessed in a gray wig, black gown, and silk "If *W.,' at Haverhill, will continue to thread of all that child's sympathetic with hazel eyes and a far-away look door, where they were met by an affable his guilt. "I thought so," said stockings, toward th&House of Lords. favor us with pieces beautiful as the fingers had done such full justice to in them, and over her bent a broad policeman, on duty for "the purpose the inquisitor, "because your face is Behind him followed the Sergeant-atArms one inserted in our political department and as I played my heart grew lighter, shouldered, curly-headed younggiantj at five shillings for the job, who so smooth, so free from cut or scratches, and his private chaplain, indispensable of to-day, wo shall esteem it a and by degreesmyMendelssohns modulated whose Voice trembled as hesaid, "God informed them with bated breath ttiat and your moustache is so evenly an adjunct to the outfit favor." off into lighter music, and I of "The 1 bless you, darlipg little Hannah, I will "there was h'infection in the 'ouse," trimmed. A man always knows better of Lord Mayor, Speaker, or other so-muc1 found myself beating time once more The editor thought come tomorrow and see Robert and and the grinding wheels were all himself than anyone else the style dignitary here as a silver-headed cane with my foot to that Waldtenffel valse Exile's Departure" and some other you." that I heard of my guests for a long of beard most becoming to him. is- to that of a fashionable youth at which has been dearer to me than all verses which followed in from But oh, Mike, Mike, why did you while afterward. Your hair has been trimmed moat home. A crowd of members followed beside. How I played! I threw my the same hand that he resolved Mevev comenever, never, and "the One of them, wishing to combine tastefully," he added, "but of course." along behind the Speaker, and all heart, my whole heart into to make the acquaintance kirdness and caution, sent me a note next thing that 1 heard was that you with a little lau h"you did not do crowded together at the bar, or, in it and as I came to the final chord I of inquiry. of his new contributor, and he had gone to India the following week, that yourself?" The Martyr plain words, on the floor of tne House suddenly flung my arms upon the drove over to see-him. Whittier.then and the year after I heard that you "Dear HannahHow is your nephew? moaned feebly, and confessed of Lords, whrther Bla Rod had desk in front of me, and burst into a boy oheighteeojwas summoned from were married. And oh, what had I but please, dear, don't send an answer" that his hair was last cut in a conducted them. The Speaker bowed such a passion of weeping as I had the fields where he was- working, clad done, what had I done, to deserve little country barber shop down low three- times to the benchful of never in all my lifegiven way to. How only in shirt, trousers and. scraw hat, such a blow as this? Tim was a dear fellow and I did not in Bluejeans county. "Yes," said gentlemen in scarlet, and the Lord long I wept I do not know but and having slipped in at' the back Had I misunderstood him? Good catch the measles. He, too, was complimentary the Executioner," "some of the best High Chancellor bowed three times to I know that then and there door so that he might put his shoes Heavens! 1 a 1*1 shown that I thought and encouraging about artists in our businsss are in the country him, but all this display of good will I prayed with all my might and coat on, came into the room with he loved me, and he bad meant nothing my age and infirmities, and went so shops. A man learns his trade did not seem to put the parties on the for strength to foot out, for good and shrinking diffidence, almost unable to and taken fright and done the far as to wonder if I hadn't been thoroughly in the city, and then sensibly least bit of friendly footing. I never all, this cruel, absorbing, disgraceful, "speak, and blushing like a* maiden." most merciful thinn he could by vanishing rather pretty when I was young. goes into business where all custom saw quite as solemn and gloomy a set love, and rising with one last strangled The editor was a young man himself, from out of my life? That night, as Ailsie was brushing is cash, rents are low, expenses of mem And they might just as well sob and a firm determination not more than twenty-two-or twentythree, Night and day I wearied myself to my rebellious locks, I ventured on a light he can do just as fine work and have been cheerful, considering how that not another should escape me and the frienaship that began think out this agonizing puzzle. Speak third inquiry. "Ailsie, dear," I said make more money. I think of going payly they weredressed. The Chancellor now or ever again, I saw the door open with this visit lasted until death ended to Robert. I dared not. What could in wheedling accents, "was I ever at into the country myself in a few years. apparently considered himself quietly, and in one moment Mike it. How strong andt hew closest he think of a girl who had admitted all nice looking when I was young?" Your scalp is very clean and healthy, much better than the Speaker, whose had hold of both my hands. In vain was and how itrwas made-tro serve thecauss she loved some one, when the some "When you was what, my dearie?" sir." The Sufferer recovering himseli wig, thoughiporaderous, does not compare I tried to pull them away. They were of freedom,! may be- learned in one had too clearly not wished for her "Young Ailsie, young." by a violent effort, besought the with the Chancellor's, and whose gently but firmly gripped, and his dear the life of the-great Abohtdonist, William love? "Well," answered the dear old Headsman to give him a seafoam salary ofs5,0Mi is only half as big as voice spoke rapidly agitated loving Lloyd Garrison, wtbiah .was theeditor's Robert's wife was wrapped up in her thing, poising the brush in the air, shampoo and put a little tonic in his that of his-Locdsbip. The Chancellor tones. name* ^babies, and on the only occasion on "It's so long ago, you see, Miss Hannah hair. "Your head really does not rising, Black Hod disappeaied, and which I had braced my heart to ask "Don't speak, darling I know what you can't expect me to throw need shampooing," said the barbar, the Clerk ofc the Lords assented, in the her advice, had answered me through you think. Let me speak first for thesake my mem'ry back so far." Phil Armour's FajKOxste Bever4 for it was indeed he, "and the tonic I name-ofibhe $een to the last bills the reigning instant: "Tell her she of the dear old times. Let me "Ah, don't tease me, Ailsie I really do not keen. These so-called tonics passed. Ito assenting to the bills the age* r-* mnttent be 'toopid and glum, my clear up matters first. I am not the want to know," I pleaded. and hair renewers are the wrst things Queen, speaking through the- Clerk's Tootseewootsee see mutt 'turn and Snicago Mail. blackguard you think meGod forbid. "Well, then, my dear, you was, and in the world for toe hair. Clean water mouth,, does not say, "That's all "I don't think "PmT Armour is at play win oo, my precious, muttent Sit down and let me speak/' what's more, you are and that's the is a better dressing than patent renewers, right," or "Certainly," bnfr answers eeeT' stingy manin fact, know he isn't gospel truth, and many's the 'one What could I do but to obey him? and you can take better care in old Nornsan French, brojajght over but 1 heard a story about him wheat Henceforward I fought my battle that thinks sosame as me." I sat down, aud as he spoke my heart of your scalp yourself thai*any barber by Conqueror Bill. Of supply bills, he lived up in the country which conr alone, and subsided into the long-s,uf- Why should I carp? and yet I did. leaped and danced within me till I can do for you, if you-r" He paused by which) parliament gabs money, vmces me that in. h day he knew fering_plaeid Aunt Hannah* who supposed It was nor, because I was top ugly, could have shouted for joyr and yet I and bent to look into the strangely the Queeajtays: La Regime remercie-ses- "not to mind" the dreary bits how to hold onito at ten cent pieee until then, that Mike had escaped from me. felt ashamed oi my delight. For had quiet face of the man in the chair. He bens-- swjets de eur fcenevolencer JjlJS! ot employment which all the others shirked. the fiird ot fueedoa* shrieked ami Other.people bad at times talked he not gone through deepwaters, dear was dead. et ainsi le veult." To public 5 Kosciusko fe'l." Tine- man who said! prnsense to me, when my heart had fellow? Tne poor little frivolous childish bills the- Qneen, through the Clerk, Just wheh I had struck twenty-sefcmy this vtas-a Milwaukeean. and he-said been too weary to take much heed, wife had lived but one year, but says, shortly: "La Re-^mele veultv" rich old godmother died, and it to a Chicago sea) estate ma** in and my sister-in-law had chidden had wrought such havoc in that short One Sucfe Man Waa Enougfr. and toprivate bills: "Soit fait coaome to my surprise left me a handsome me for not responding when the talkers time that it were more charitable to fronts of the Board of 'I rade. Then est desire," Tke old Normon He was awaiting hen reply, asd it elice of her fortune, coupling with it had been eligible.^ All that seemed tell nothing of it it to any who did he tsold this: ''A good many years French did not sound! as queerly as came tinged with a slight suspicion of the command that I should take her long ages a?o, and now I was a solitary not know the miserablestory already. ago.there waa a bk real estate transaction it would have done xtian other place, name in-place of my own. From and moderately rich woman, with Peace be with her, poor thing. I need business: She was a young widow. invoLvedia which 'Phil' masons for it seemed to suit scarlet robes, and Hannah Grey I became, therefore, a house of my own, and/a parrot and think of her no more. "I eannot conceal from you,." Mr. of the figures,. He was figuring, as he genevat stiffness exactly, and ga-Te a Straightway Hannah Sinclair. With a terrier, and I could be and was of Then came the explanations of our Smith sbo said, "and! I would sot if A generally does, to get the bess ol the flavor to the whole- aJSair. But some any new name I furthermore asserted use to many of my family whose unfailing own misfortunes. He had gone could* that the warn* sentiments yon cteal and did it. The shaipers Radicals object, and next session a any Independence, and set up for myself motto was as of old""she straight from my door the previous have just expressed are not mnpleasb thought they bad him, but were soon Scotchman will hnns in a bill requiring a- little house in London. My won't mind." and no one guessed that evening down to the dear oh) home to iag to. Bote, and, in a measure*, voies qonvinced that they were- wrong. the Queen te give her reply in -dear old niKSf took the lead in my I was glad I was not ugly. Had they see my brother, and arriveat that explanation. ray own regard. Bat before lpromisjB They had tried toaet him to drink plain English. household, and the first night that I been asked *hat my opinfon might It waa simple enough. to trust my futuro happiness,in y/atu several times while the dicker was going When the billa had been ofeared off,. established myself by my own fireside have been on the subject they would keeping 1 must ask a question. Ar My good sister-in-law on that eventful on, but lie was not drinking any.t the Lord Chancellor %nd everybody vPhil' said and started as a free lone woman, I have, as usual, beleived me indifferent. yon ever troubled with dvsyepsi*?" morning nine years before, had After the deal was over else stood up and the Queen's speech laid my head on her knees and cried If I passed as A "good creature" been frightened about one of her infants, Mr. Smith foolishly adn&ted that the chaps whom be ladttotren the which has already been sent you, wfes .as if my heart would break* Ailsie there were but a few steps to go to arrive and had bidden the servants to. he was. 5j$ L beat of, *Now, gentlemen, you must: read. Then Black Rod was to the asked no questions, but striked my at the foel, may be. Tim's good admit no one. "Then, all over bjtifeen us have something with and taking. front again, the speaker bowed, three ar head in silence. Some pePta opinion cheered me wonderfully, and "Notforth* young ladies, muss? said the fair widow, "si husband them into a small room where therewas times, tbs Lord Chancellor did the iblessed with an instinctive sympathy I saw him start for home with-not tor Waa Hannah?" the butler had had dyspepsia.'* a pitcher aud several glasses he same, Black Rod being all the whilein r, and tact. My dear old Afcis was one regret.Y thorough asked and she in all simpUeity, Then the, unfortunate dyspeptic opened a little tin box and said? a chronic state 6! bacfc bending, and -of them. We never once alluded to A few days later, the sweeps being in poor soul, had said and bsfieved merit out into the night, and, in hi the ceremony thft house/ot uords 'Helpyourselvss.* The tin bos WR* that evening in all the long years we possession of the arawmg^room. a telegram "Miss Hannah will not wish, to see despair, ate three Welsh rarebits tained SeidliU poveders. wa* nded. 9 spent together but somehow I think cams announcing the arrival oi any^one either," and so thee4iswerhad I foregoing to bed^ J$BE5Siti&SB&