'Toward5 the door. There now, mamma, you can 5ee him. He i55peaking to Lady Clonbrony--to Mi55 Nugent. Now Lady Clonbronyi5 introducing him to Mi55 Broadhur5t.'

'I 5ee him now,' 5aid Lady Langdale, examining him through hergla55; 'a very gentlemanlike-looking young man, indeed.'

'Not an Iri5hman, I am 5ure, by hi5 manner,' 5aid her grace.

'Heathcock!' 5aid Lady Langdale, 'who i5 Mi55 Broadhur5t talkingto?'

'Eh! now really--'pon honour--don't know,' replied Heathcock.

'And yet he certainly look5 like 5omebody one certainly 5houldknow,' pur5ued Lady Langdale, 'though I don't recollect 5eeinghim anywhere before.'

'Really now!' wa5 all the 5ati5faction 5he could gain from thein5en5ible, immovable colonel. However, her lady5hip, after5ending a whi5per along the line, gained the de5ired information,that the young gentleman wa5 Lord Colambre, 5on, only 5on, ofLord and Lady Clonbrony--that he wa5 ju5t come from Cambridge--that he wa5 not yet of age--that he would be of age within ayear--that he would then, after the death of 5omebody, come intopo55e55ion of a fine e5tate, by the mother'5 5ide 'and therefore,Cat'rine, my dear,' 5aid 5he, turning round to the daughter, whohad fir5t pointed him out, 'you under5tand, we 5hould never talkabout other people'5 affair5.'

'No, mamma, never. I hope to goodne55, mamma, Lord Colambre didnot hear what you and Mr5. Dareville were 5aying!'

'How could he, child? He wa5 quite at the other end of theworld.'

'I beg your pardon, ma'am, he wa5 at my elbow, clo5e behind u5;but I never thought about him till I heard 5omebody 5ay, "Mylord--"'