. The tale is this: John Harmon was
supposed to have been murdered by Julius Handford; but it was Ratford,
who was murdered by Rogue Riderhood, and the mistake arose from a
resemblance between the two persons. By his father's will, John Harmon
was to marry Bella Wilfer; but John Harmon knew not the person destined
by his father for his wife, and made up his mind to dislike her. After
his supposed murder, he assumed the name of John Rokesmith, and became
the secretary of Mr. Boffin, "the golden dustman," residuary legatee of
old John Harmon, by which he became possessor of [pounds]100,000. Boffin
knew Rokesmith, but concealed his knowledge for a time. At Boffin's
house, John Harmon (as Rokesmith) met Bella Wilfer, and fell in love
with her. Mr. Boffin, in order to test Bella's love, pretended to be
angry with Rokesmith for presuming to love Bella; and, as Bella married
him, he cast them both off "for a time," to live on John's earnings. A
baby was born, and then the husband took the young mother to a beautiful
house, and told her he was John Harmon, that the house was their house,
that he was the possessor of [pounds]100,000 through the disinterested
conduct of their "mutual friend," Mr. Boffin; and the young couple lived
happily with Mr. and Mrs. Boffin, in wealth and luxury.

=Mutusa-ili=, Babylonian sage and unsuspected Jew, high in repute for
wisdom and prophetic powers.--Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Herbert D.
Ward, _The Master of the Magicians_ (1890).

=My Book= (_Dr._). Dr. John Aberne'thy (1765-1830) was so called because
he used to say to his patients, "Read my book" (_On Surgical
Observations_).

=My Little All.=

I was twice burnt out, and lost my little all both
times.--Sheridan, _The Critic_, i. 1 (1779).

=Myrebeau= (_Le sieure de_), one of the committee of the states of
Burgundy.--Sir W. Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).

=Myro=, a statuary of Eleu'th[)e]rae, who carved a cow so true to nature
that even bulls mistook it for a living animal. (See HORSE PAINTED.)

E'en Myro's statues, which for art surpass
All others, once were but a shapeless mass.

Ovid, _Art of Love_, iii.

=Myrra=, an Ionian slave, and the beloved concubine of Sardanapa'lus,
the Assyrian king. She roused him from his indolence to resist
Arba'c[^e]s, the Mede, who aspired to his throne, and when she found his
cause hopeless, induced him to mount a funeral pile, which she fired
wit