fellow!--will be always at the right wing, at the right moment, know every line of his author, and contrive to give a very reasonable amount of satisfaction to all parties concerned. Following this precedent, then, that wise virgin, Miss Magnolia, and her sagacious mamma, had allotted the role in question to Arthur Slowe, who was the better furnished for the part, and, on the whole, the stronger 'cast.' But failing him, Lieutenant O'Flaherty was quietly, but unconsciously, as the phrase is,'under-studying' that somewhat uncertain gentleman. 'And the general's off to Scarborough,' said Toole. 'Old Chattesworth! I thought it was to Bath. 'Oh, no, Scarborough; a touch of the old rheum, and stomach I sent him there; and he's away in the Hillsborough packet for Holyhead this morning, and Colonel Stafford's left in command.' 'And my Lady Becky Belmont's superseded,' laughed Miss Magnolia, derisively. 'And who do you think's going to make the grand tour? from Paris to Naples, if you please, and from Naples to Rome, and up to Venice, and home through Germany, and deuce knows where beside; you'll not guess in a twel'month,' said Toole, watching her with a chuckle. 'Devereux, maybe,' guessed the young lady. 'No 'tisn't,' said Toole, delighted; 'try again!' 'Well, 'tis, let me see. Some wild young rogue, with a plenty of money, I warrant, if I could only think of him--come, don't keep me all day--who the plague is he, Toole?' urged the young lady, testily. 'Dan Loftus,' answered Toole, 'ha, ha, ha, ha!' 'Dan Loftus!--the grand tour--why, where's the world running to? Oh, ho, ho, ho, hoo! what a macaroni!' and they laughed heartily over it, and called him 'travelled monkey,' and I know not what else. 'Why, I thought Dr. Walsingham designed him for his curate; but what in the wide world brings Dan Loftus to foreign parts--"To dance and sing for the Spanish King, and to sing and dance for the Queen of France?"' 'Hey! Dan's got a good place, I can tell you--travelling tutor to the hopeful young lord that is to be--Devereux's cousin. By all the Graces, Ma'am, 'tis the blind leading the blind. I don't know which of the two is craziest. Hey, diddle-diddle--by Jupiter, such a pair--the dish ran away with the spoon; but Dan's a good creature, and we'll--we'll miss him. I like Dan, and he loves the rector--I like him for that; where there's gratitude and fidelity, Miss Mag, there's no lack of other virtues, I warrant you--and the good doctor has been a wonderful loving friend to poor Dan, and God bless him for it, say I, and amen.' 'And amen with all my heart,' said Miss Mag, gaily; ''tis an innocent creature--poor Dan; though he'd be none the worse of a little more lace to his hat, and a little less Latin in his head. But see here, doctor, here's my poor old goose of a mother (and she kissed her cheek) as sick as a cat in a tub.' And she whispered something in Toole's wig, and they both laughed uproariously.