Alice, Book II by Edward Bulwer-lytton — Read

_Rod_. How sweet these solitary places are! _Ped_. What strange musick Was that we heard afar off? _Curio_. We've told you what he is, what time we've sought him, His nature and his name. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. _The Pilgrim_.

ONE day, as the ladies were seated in Mrs. Merton's morning-room, Evelyn, who had been stationed by the window hearing the little Cecilia go through the French verbs, and had just finished that agreeable task, exclaimed, --