Artemis of the Louvre and the Psyche of Naples, while her thoughtful expression recalled the celebrated 'Reading Girl' of Donatello. Only a reading girl, indeed, could have been, as she was, Reader in English Literature on the Churton Collins Foundation.

   'Who is she?' I said to my friend, the scholar of Lady Betty's; 'what a lovely creature she is!'

   'Who,

    that

   ?' she replied with some tartness. 'Well, what you can see in

    her

   ,

    I

   don't know. That's Leonora O'Dolite, and the lady with her is the Lady Superior of Lady Betty's.

   'They call them Pretty and the Proctor,' my friend went on, 'as Mrs. Martin—Polly they call her too—has been Proctor twice.'

    2

    2

   I say, you know, keep clear of improbabilities! No one was ever old enough to have been Proctor

    twice

   .—

    Publisher.

   That's all you know about it. Why, I shall bring in a character old enough to have been Proctor a thousand times.—

    Ed.

   Now nobody could have called Polly bewitching. Her age must really have been quite thirty-five. I dislike dwelling on this topic, but she was short, dumpy, wore blue spectacles, a green umbrella, a red and black shawl, worsted mittens and uncompromising boots. She had also the ringlets and other attractions with which French Art adorns its ideal Englishwoman.

   

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