what with the dress, and what with the colour in your cheeks, I never saw you look better." I understood that involuntary smile perfectly well, but had neither power nor inclination to remove the impression which had given rise to it. I ran downstairs, and there stood the great long-legged fellow, with a boa round his neck. We shook hands, and launched into home talk directly. St. George, he said, had brought him up for some further advice; but he made light of his symptoms, and looked so well that I began to agree with him, and think there could not be much the matter. He soon began to examine the woodengraving. "Then your brother is in London?" I said, and I felt rather alarmed at the notion that he might appear. "Yes; where do you think he is now? He left me at the door-step here, and went to inspect the copper that Anne is having built in the district." "Inspect the copper? What does he know about it?" "Oh, it's just in his line; he is learned, you know, about model cottages, and estimates for schools, and all that sort of humbug." "You should not call it humbug. But how did he hear of it?" "Why, you mentioned it to me, didn't you? -how your uncle had sent you ten pounds, and how Anne had hired a room for the neighbourhood to have their wash-in-do their ironing?" "O yes, I remember; but I did not think I had said anything about the copper, and that it wanted inspection; but it does, for it smokes and won't act. But how does he know the way to the district?" "Oh, he has a natural genius for ferreting out dirty places. Dick has got a curacy in London-hard work, and no pay worth mentioning. It will be the delight of his little High Church soul." "It appears to me that you are deteriorating! Valentine did not honour this remark with any notice, but went on— "Sister is going to send Dick a hamper almost every week. She is afraid he should be starved. That fellow is a saint; but I don't see why he need pat the heads of the dirty beggar children with his bare hands." "Does your brother ever do that?" "No. He is a saint too in his way; but, my dear Dorothea, there are simple saints in this world, and there are knowing ones." END OF THE THIRD VOLUME. LONDON: PRINTED BY AND PARLIAMENT STREET HENRY S. KING & Co.'s RECENTLY PUBLISHED NOVELS. I II The DOCTOR'S DILEMMA. By HESBA STRETTON, Author of 'Little III The SPINSTERS of BLATCHINGTON. BY MAR. TRAVERS. 2 vols. [Just out. crown 8vo. IV The PRINCESS CLARICE: a Story of 1871. By MORTIMER COLLINS. 2 vols. crown 8vo. 'Mr. Collins has produced a readable book, amusingly characteristic. There is good description of Devonshire scenery; and lastly there is Clarice, a most successful heroine, who must speak to the reader for herself.-ATHENÆUM. Very readable and amusing. 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