Really, my lady" stammered out the haberdasher, after what appeared to us to be a most ominous pause, "I am deeply sensible of your ladyship's patronage, and the patronage of your ladyship's niece."

So soon as the spouses had both entered, her ladyship gave way to that fierce audacity of temper which she had with difficulty suppressed, out of respect to appearances.

Lady Ashton led the way, and her lord followed somewhat like a condemned criminal, to her ladyship's dressing-room.

The garden in which stands my humble abode is separated only by a lane from Rosings Park, her ladyship's residence.