"Yes," responded Abbot; "if she were a nice，pretty child，one might passionate her forlornness; but one really cannot care for such a little toad as that."

"Not a great deal，to be sure," agreed Bessie: "at any rate，a beauty like Miss Georgiana would be more moving in the same condition."

"Yes，I doat on Miss Georgiana!" cried the fervent Abbot. "Little darling!- with her long curls and her blue eyes，and such a sweet colour as she has; just as if she were painted!- Bessie，I could fancy a Welsh rabbit for supper."

"So could I- with a roast onion. e，we"ll go down." They went.