unding brass to me—conveying no meaning:—

    “‘Da trat ernen Nacy arcly set before you! tian. ‘Ic dem Gewic!”

    Bot.

    “Is try  ting.

    “Yes, ry talk in no other way.”

    “ell, for sure case, I kna and t’ one t’ot tell hey said, I guess?”

    “e could probably tell somet t not all— for  as clever as you t speak German, and  read it  a dictionary to help us.”

    “And  do you?”

    “e mean to teac some time—or at least ts, as t more money than we do now.”

    “Varry like: but give oudying; ye’ve done enougo- night.”

    “I t least I’m tired. Mary, are you?”

    “Mortally: after all, it’s toug a language er but a lexicon.”

    “It is, especially suc glorious Deutsc. John will come home.”

    “Surely  be long no is just ten (looking at a little gold c rains fast, o look at the parlour?”

    tir a fire in an inner room; sly came back.

    “A fair troubles me to go into yond’ room no looks so lonesome y and set back in a corner.”

    Swo girls, grave before, looked sad now.

    “But ter place,” continued  h nor he had.”

    “You say ioned us?” inquired one of the ladies.

    “ time, bairn: e,  ailing like t naugo signify; and  for,   of a  day—t is, a fortnig to sleep and niver ark o t’ c’s t’ last o’ t’ old stock—for ye and Mr. St. Jo soart to t’s gone; for all your mot as book-learned. Sur’ o’ ye, Mary: Diana is more like your father.”

    I t t tell inction and intelligence. One, to be sure, yle of ; Mary’s pal