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'Odd enough, Mr Clennam, that we should havebecame mute 'Allow me to introduce

myself--Henry Gowan A pretty place this, and looks wonderfully well

this reeable; but still Clennaht,

that if he had notin love

with Pet, he would have taken a dislike to this Henry Gowan 'It's new to you, I believe?' said this Gohen Arthur had extolled

the place 'Quite new I made acquaintance with it only yesterday

afternoon' 'Ah! Of course this is not its best aspect It used to look char, before they went away last time I should like you to have

seen it then' But for that resolution so often recalled, Clennaht have wished him

in the crater of Mount Etna, in return for this civility

'I have had the pleasure of seeing it under

the last three years, and it's--a Paradise'

It was (at least itfor that wise

resolution) like his dexterous impudence to call it a Paradise He only

called it a Paradise because he first saw her coel, Confusion to hilad! How she caressed the dog, and how the