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By-the by, Montague, if you'd like to come to the dinner, I've got a ticket I can let you have. You know how they're run after. Montague had heard of the dinner, but had perhaps heard as little of it as any man frequenting a club at the west end of London. He did not in the least want to be at the dinner, and certainly did not wish to receive any extraordinary civility from Mr Melmotte's hands.

The low though extensive hall, supported by beams and pillars, and latterly dignified by-the name of Corn Ex- change, was thronged with hot men who talked among each other in twos and threes, the speaker of the minute looking sideways into his auditor's face and concentrating his argument by a contraction of one eyelid during de- livery.

I now withdrew until I considered myself quite beyond the influence of the lamps burning in the two apartments and which, by-the- bye, I judged from the clearness with which they burned, must have been very recently trimmed in order to ascertain the position of the battery.

"Petulengro?" said my brother; "a strange kind of fellow came up to me some time ago in our town, and asked me about you; when I inquired his name, he told me Petulengro. No, he will not do, he is too short; by-the- bye, do you not think that figure of Moses is somewhat short?" And then it appeared to me that I had thought the figure of Moses somewhat short, and I told my brother so.

Ingram's death " she forced herself to the name "quite casually, as if he had been saying, 'By-the- by, the Rector's coming to dine. If he had wanted me, do you think he would have put it like that?" "Nevile," said Chevenix, "would put anything like anything. He's that sort, you know. He'd take for granted that you understood lots of things which he couldn't express.

He avoided glancing at Helen Blake, whose answering blush was lost in the darkness. "I did think when you drove up that might be Mr. Covington with you," Miss Chapin remarked, wistfully. "Oh no, that's my man." Speed glanced around him. "And, by-the- way, where is he?"

I made the acquaintance of many of the townsfolk, and was struck by-the far higher standard of cleanliness to be found here than in Cetinje. The idea that the Montenegrin could teach civilization to the Albanian was patently absurd. Scutari was hotly excited over the bomb affair of Cetinje. The trial of the prisoners, who had been in close confinement for nearly a year, came on in May.

"Now I know why we have asparagus every day for dinner! Apropos of dinner, who do you think is coming to feed with us this evening, Kavanagh?" "Invalids are excused guessing," said Kavanagh. "Your old militia captain, Royce. He has got his majority now, by-the- by, and he is set upon having you back into the regiment." Royce was punctual; and I propose to you a novelty in story endings.

He had seen her certainly on more than one occasion in lengthened and apparently earnest conversation with Sidonia, who, by-the- bye, spoke with her often in Spanish, and never concealed his admiration of her charms or the interest he found in her society.

Unfortunately the two noblemen, Lord G and Lord F , were married, or I might have condescended to be particularly gracious to THEM; as it was, I did not: though Lord F , who hates his wife, was evidently much struck with me. He asked me to dance with him twice he is a charming dancer, by-the- by, and so am I: you can't think how well I did I was astonished at myself.