Two or three times during this short address, the cherub addressed had made chubby motions towards a chair. The gentleman now took it, laying a hesitating hand on a corner of the table, and with another hesitating hand lifting the crown of his hat to his lips, and drawing it before his mouth.

“The gentleman, R. W. ,” said Mrs. Wilfer, “proposes to take your apartments by the quarter. A quarter’s notice on either side.”

“Shall I mention, sir,” insinuated the landlord, expecting it to be received as a matter of course, “the form of a reference?”