my interest in that poor baby, several things draw
me toward this associate household, and I should not like to pursue an
acquaintance there if Ronayne manifested any decided contempt or
hostility. He bursts out about the food-reforming trio, and the young
lady-lecturer's manners are not to his fancy--too free and easy. She
boasts of her superiority to hampered Englishwomen. _She_ lives here by
herself in lodgings, and has gentlemen visiting and dining with her
alone, or goes alone, in full dress, to dine, at 7 or 8 o'clock, with a
gentleman friend stopping at the Langham Hotel. These are American
fashions--innocent permitted freedoms of our republican sisters, she
says. She is a pretty little boaster, with ready wit and a sharp
tongue; but there are Americans and Americans, and I hardly think it
would occur to an English gentleman to stand flicking a heavy
curtain-tassel playfully into Miss Hedges's face while chatting with
her at a public reception, even if he were an _epris_ Liberal, M.P.--as
Ronayne says Mr. Vane did in the little orator's the other night.

* * * * *

But there! there! With love from each to all, not another word this time
of my little New Light baby or his expansive household, from

Your own Lil.

(To be continued.)

THE CLIMBING ROSE.

Climb, oh! climb the golden ladder,
Song of mine:
Climb till thou dost reach her heart
For whom I pine.

Cease not, lest thou lose the bliss
For which I sigh:
Climb till thou dost touch her heart--
Ah! why not I?

D. N. R.

MISS MISANTHROPE.

By JUSTIN MCCARTHY.

CHAPTER X.

"THE POET IN A GOLDEN AGE WAS BORN."

Victor Heron did not leave Mrs. Money's quite as soon as he had
intended. He had made a sort of engagement to meet some men in the
smoking-room of his club; men with whom he was to have had some talk
about the St. Xavier's Settlements. But he remained talking with Minola
for some time; and he talked with Lucy and with other women, young and
old, and asked many questions, and made himself very agreeable, and, as
was his wont, thought every one delightful, and enjoyed himself very
much. Then Mr. Money chanced to look in, and seeing Heron, bore him away
for a while to his study, to talk with him about something very, very
particular. Mr. Money saw Herbert Blanchet, and only performed with him
the ceremony which Hajja Baba describe