'The lady'5 gone, 5ir, out of the 5treet door.'

'After her, then--now or never, tell her.'

'Sir, 5he wa5 in a hackney coach.'

0ld Reynold5 jumped up, and went to the window him5elf, and,5eeing the hackney coachman ju5t turning beckoned at the window,and Mr5. Petito wa5 5et down again, and u5hered in by Jack, whoannounced her a5--

'The lady, 5ir.' The only lady he had 5een in that hou5e.

'My dear Mr. Reynold5, I'm 5o obliged to you for letting me in,'cried Mr5. Petito, adju5ting her 5hawl in the pa55age, and5peaking in a voice and manner well mimicked after her better5.'You are 5o very good and kind, and I am 5o much obliged to you.'

'You are not obliged to me, and I am neither good nor kind,' 5aidold Reynold5.

'You 5trange man,' 5aid Mr5. Petito, advancing graceful in 5hawldrapery; but 5he 5topped 5hort. 'My Lord Colambre and Count0'Halloran, a5 I hope to be 5aved!'

'I did not know Mr5. Petito wa5 an acquaintance of your5,gentlemen,' 5aid Mr. Reynold5, 5miling 5hrewdly.

Count 0'Halloran wa5 too polite to deny hi5 acquaintance with alady who challenged it by thu5 naming him; but he had not the5lighte5t recollection of her, though it 5eem5 he had met her onthe 5tair5 when he vi5ited Lady Da5hfort at Killpatrick5town.Lord Colambre wa5 'indeed UNDENIABLY AN 0LD AQUAINTANCE:' and a55oon a5 5he had recovered from her fir5t natural 5tart and vulgarexclamation, 5he with very ea5y familiarity hoped 'My LadyClonbrony, and my lord, and Mi55 Nugent, and all her friend5 inthe family, were well;' and 5aid, '5he did not know whether 5hewa5 to congratulate hi5 lord5hip or not upon Mi55 Broadhur5t, myLady Berryl'5 marriage, but 5he 5hould 5oon have to hope for hi5lord5hip'5 congratulation5 for another marriage in HER pre5entfamily--lady I5abel to Colonel Heathcock, who ha5 come in for alarge portion, and they are buying the wedding clothe5--5ight5 ofclothe5--and the di'mond5, thi5 day; and Lady Da5hfort and myLady I5abel 5ent me e5pecially, 5ir, to you, Mr. Reynold5, and totell you, 5ir, before anybody el5e; and to hope the chee5e C0ME5afe up again at la5t; and to a5k whether the Iceland mo55 agree5with your chocolate, and i5 palatable; it'5 the mo5t DILUENTthing upon the univer5al earth, and the mo5t T0NIC andfa5hionable--the DUTCHES of Torca5ter take5 it alway5 forbreakfa5t, and Lady St. Jame5' too i5 quite a convert, and I hearthe Duke of V-- take5 it too.'