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"Good day!" responded Bainton, and the two worthies panted, each to go on their several ways, Buggins to the 'Mother Huff' from whose opened latticed windows the smell of roast beef and onions, which generally composed the Buggins' Sunday meal, came in odorous whiffs down the little lane, almost smothering the delicate perfume of the sprouting sweet-briar hedges on either side, and the nodding cowslips in the grass below; Bainton to his own cottage on the border of his master's grounds, a pretty little dwelling with a thatched roof almost overgrown with wistaria just breaking into flower.

Buggins!" said Farmer Thorpe, as he sent his tankard to be refilled, "Lord! We won't know you!" Again the laugh went round, and Mrs. Buggins precipitately retired to her 'inner parlour' there to recover from the shock occasioned to her religious feelings by the irreverent remarks of her too matter- of-fact customer.

"We ain't doin' nothin', Josey!" said Buggins, almost timidly. "Nor we ain't sayin' nothin'," added Bainton. "We be as harmless as doves," put in Adam Frost with a sly chuckle; "and we ain't no match for sarpints!" "Ain't you looking well, Mr. Letherbarrow!" ejaculated the smartly dressed barmaid; "Just wonderful for your time of life!" "My time o' life?"

There was nothing, therefore, in his present visit which need appear to be singular, or which required any immediate special explanation. He sat himself down in his ordinary way, and began to speak of the subject of the day. "We're all to go," said Sowerby. "So I hear," said the private secretary. "It will give me no trouble, for, as the respectable Buggins says, we're in the Upper House now."

"He won't say a word, Miss," Hannah had pleaded, "and he'll run and fetch for you like a dog." But even when recommended so highly for his social qualities, Buggins, she felt, would be antipathetic to her; and, with many false assurances that she did not think it right to interrupt a newly-married couple, she confined herself on those days to her own room.

And then, remembering that the visitor was a county member a position which Buggins regarded as next to that of a peer he got up, and, opening the private secretary's door, ushered in the visitor. Young Robarts and Mr. Sowerby had, of course, become acquainted in the days of Harold Smith's reign.

I think she could have spoken her mind freely had Mr Maguire come in her way. Then, when she saw Mrs Buggins's copy, her anger blazed up afresh, and her agony became more intense. The horrid man must have sent copies all over the world, or he would never have thought of sending a copy to Mrs Buggins! But she did not go to the Cedars.

His private secretary tittered in evident allusion to the article, and the way in which Buggins took his coat made it clear that it was well known in the messengers' lobby. "He won't have to fill up my vacancy when I go," Buggins was saying to himself.

"I won't see him," said she, with heightened colour, grieving greatly that the strong-minded Hannah Protheroe, or Buggins, as it might probably be by that time, was not at home. "Martha, don't let him come up. Tell him to go away at once." After some persuasion, the girl went down with the message, which she softened to suit her own idea of propriety.

Bennett," replied Roger Buggins, acting as spokesman for the rest, and personally serving him with the foaming draught he had ordered. "Which, we likewise trusts your lady is well?" "My lady enjoys the hest of health, thank you!" said Bennett, with polite gravity. And tossing off the contents of his glass, he signified by an eloquent gesture and accompanying wink, that he was 'good for another.