text:  Come--shall I go on and give these ladies the facts of some of your other stories or will you close with my terms at once?" Mr Gillingham Howard did not take long to decide and a very short time saw Surbridge Hall once more in the ancient line; and old Mr Roe in relating the means he used to expel the vainglorious descendant of his partner generally concluded with the moral if not the words of Shakspeare--"Men's pleasant vices make whips to scourge them