WITH A WINE-GLASS. Ot

roads has to do with it, and the competative
examinations, and the tearing away at every-
thing, and heating it up with champagne;
everything is done in a whiz and a whirl,
first with one thing, then with another; its
fearful, the quantity they take to get up
the steam and then to keep it up; its when
we're in colored clothes, mixing in society
on the sly, that we see so much of the back-
stairs practice; and what’s drank ‘at the
refreshment table, and in the corners, and
taken up to my lady’s chamber, unbeknown,
and the red lavender, aye, and tasty drinks,
and the lots sipt by pretty young ladies at
croquet parties, and the gentlemen coaxing
them on to do it, and winking and laughing
at—”

“There’s big Ben out with all he knows,
Mr. Connor; and one waiting for me, and
me over-due this minute’s a good hour, in
Woburn Place; look to that little orphlin,