ut the young ravens.
It was papa who said that when he first heard of this
Di Crinola affair. I suppose a girl _ought to trust in
Providence_ when she marries a man without a shilling.
That was what papa meant.

Papa says that you said that he ought to go into
Parliament. But what would he _get_ by that? Perhaps
as he is in the Post Office they might make him
_Postmaster-General_. Only papa says that if he were to go
into Parliament, then he could not call himself Duca di
Crinola. Altogether it seems to be _very sad_,--though not
_quite_ so sad as before. It is true that one of the Di
Crinolas married a _Bourbon_, and that others of them have
married ever so many _royalties_. I think there ought to
be a law for giving such people something to live upon
_out of the taxes_. How are they to be _expected_ to live
upon nothing? I asked papa whether he couldn't get it
done; but he said it would be a _money bill_, and that
_you_ ought to take it up. Pray don't, for fear it should
take you _all August_. I know you wouldn't have a scruple
about putting off your own little affair, if anything of
that kind _were_ to come in the way. _I believe you'd like
it._

_Do_ stop a little longer when you come on Sunday. I have
_ever so many_ things to say to you. And if you can think
of anything to be done for those _poor_ Di Crinolas,
anything that won't take up _all_ August,--pray do it.

Your own,

AMY.

One more letter shall be given; the answer, namely, to the above from
the lover to his future bride;--

DEAR AMY,--

I'll be at the Square on Sunday by three. I will walk out
if you like, but it is always raining. I have to meet five
or six conservative members later on in the afternoon as
to the best thing to be done as to Mr. Green's Bill for
lighting London by electricity. It would suit everybody;
but some of our party, I am afraid, would go with them,
and the Government is very shilly-shally. I have been
going into the figures, and it has taken me all the week.
Otherwise I would have been to see you.

This Di Crinola affair is quite a romance. I did not mean
that he ought to go into the House by way of getting an
income. If he takes up the title of course he could not do
so. If he takes it, he must regard himself as an Italian.
I should think him quite as respectable, earning his
bre