142 CAROLINE.

The tin dipper. Livingston does not succeed. His chagrin.

 

polite and gentlemanly manner, “to lend me a tumbler to
get some water for the young lady with me?”

“There is a dipper,on the pump,” said the woman,
pointing to it.

“ Yes,” said Livingston, “ but if you had a tumbler ora
mug that you would lend me a moment ;—”

The woman looked first at Livingston and then out at
Caroline, who was in the chaise—and then, after a mo-
ment’s pause, she said,

“ No,—tell her I have not got any tumbler or mug to
spare.”

Livingston turned and went away, feeling extremely
chagrined. He thought that the woman did perfectly

 

TUE REPOUSAL