walnuts. Excruciating pain all day. Write to SABINA; tried to appear in my ordinary spirits.. but could not refrain at end from warning her that if she wished to see me alive, she must lose no time.

November.- Life still flickering. Actually al. most enjoyed stewed eels and venison last night at dinner. To day the inevitable reaction has overtaken me. The GREENS back in town. Explain to SABINA that I wish her to consider herself free to marry when I am no more. Make one exceptionCHARLES.

December. SABINA neither so pretty nor so sympathetic as she used to be. Less upset at any reference to mourning. Told her to-day not to send a wreath; she said (dry-eyed, too!) that she thought it "a senseless custom." How use habituates us to impending sorrow. I myself was almost gay last night, helping her to roast and eat chestnuts (ever a weakness of mine). Alas! since, im

"WHERE THERE'S A WILL," &c.

"HI HI, SIR! WHERE ARE YOU COMING TO? THERE'S NO ROAD THROUGH HERE!" "PRAY DON'T APOLOGISE, SIR. QUITE GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME, I ASSURE YOU!"

AN AWKWARD REPARTEE TO DEAL WITH.

Head Master. "IT'S DISGRACEFTL, SR! WHY, YOUR BROTHER, WHO IS Two YEARS YOUNGER THAN YOURSELF, KNOWS HIS GREEK GRAMMAR BETTER THAN YOU DO!" Dunce. "AH, BUT MY BROTHER'S NOT BEEN HERE SO LONG AS I HAVE, SIR. oLY HIS FIRST TERM!"

pressive reminder that my state will bear no trifling.

THIS

25.-Dined with the GREENS. 66 My last plum-pudding in world," as I said, in a solemn whisper, to SABINA. Think her laugh may have been only hysterical. If not-callous in extreme. She will think of my words next Christmas, perhaps ! 31.-A Chapter closed in my life, not unwill. ingly. SABINA'S shallow insensibility has revolted

me at last! She actually told me to my face this morning that she "could not see there was so very much the matter with me!" If she could see within! But I have done with her. The shock almost seems to have revived in me the Will to Live. If I can only get rid of these swellings in the head, after eating, I may live yet to witness her remorse. Off to Monte Carlo to-morrow.