- WITH A WINE-GLASS. | 31

“Mary!” he exclaimed, “ is that the way
you cut an old friend? Walk on—walk
on,” he said to his companions. “ Walk on;
maybe, ’ll overtake you.” |

“Maybe, you'll overtake us!” echoed the
girl in a coarse voice, mockingly. ‘‘ Maybees
don’t fly this time of year. Is the young
lady too fine to join company? We are
going for a row on the water.”

Mary shrank instinctively from the party.
“YT am taking home work,’ she replied,
“and I have no time to spare’ —adding
in a low tone to Terence — 3

“You are not in a fit state to walk with.
me, or any well-behaved girl; and to be
so overtaken at this hour in the morning.
Oh, Terence, Terence, if I had not seen —
I could not have believed it!’? Her affec-
tionate, gentle heart sent the tears to her
eyes. She walked quickly on, Terence still
by her side ; his friends went their way.