as the carriage drove up to the door, where all were now standing.

"Whose can it be? Where did it come from? What a magnificent phaeton!
Mr. Cashel, pray tell us all about it. Do, Mr. Linton, give us its
history."

"It has none as yet, my dear Mrs. White; that it may have, one of these
days, is quite possible."

Lady Janet heard the speech, and nodded significantly in assent.

"Mr. Linton, you are coming with us, a'n't you?" said a lady's voice
from a britzska close by.

"I really don't know how the arrangement is; Cashel said something about
my driving Lady Kilgoff."

Lady Kilgoff pressed her lips close, and gathered her mantle together as
if by some sudden impulse of temper, but never spoke a word. At the same
instant Cashel made his appearance from the house.

"Are you to drive me, Mr. Cashel?" said she, calmly.

"If you will honor me so far," replied he, bowing.

"I fancied you said something to me about being her Ladyship's
charioteer," said Linton.

"You must have been dreaming, man," cried Cashel, laughing.

"Will you allow my Lady to choose?" rejoined Linton, jokingly, while he
stole at her a look of insolent malice.

Cashel stood uncertain what to say or do in the emergency, when, with a
firm and determined voice, Lady Kilgoff said,--

"I must own I have no confidence in Mr. Linton's guidance."

"There, Tom," said Cashel, gayly, "I 'm glad your vanity came in for
that."

"I have only to hope that you are in safer conduct, my Lady," said
Linton; and he bowed with uncovered head, and then stood gazing after
the swift carriage as it hastened down the avenue.

"Is it all true about these Kennyfeck girls having so much tin'?" said
Captain Jennings, as he stroked down his moustache complacently.

"They say five-and-twenty thousand each," said Linton, "and I rather
credit the rumor."

"Eh, aw! one might do worse," yawned the hussar, languidly; "I wish they
hadn't that confounded accent!" And so he moved off to join the party on
horseback.

"You are coming with me, Jemima," said Mr. Downie Meek to his daughter.
"I want to pay a visit to those works at Killaloe, we have so much
committee talk in the House on inland navigation. Oh, dear! it is very
tiresome."

"Charley says I 'm to go with him, pa; he 's about to try Smasher as a
leader, and wants me, if anything goes wrong."

"Oh, dear! quite impossible."

"Yes, yes, Jim, I insist," said Frobisher, in a half-whisper; "never
mind the gover