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a week, but that oftener they would become

(which translated would signify bores:) " and what, in the name of God, was to become of people all the rest of the week? — Were they to be shut up in their own houses by themselves ? — This was a scheme quite impracticable, the af- fairs of many persons requiring insurances upon their lives, which could be done at no premium if such risques were to be run as being at home alone." — I was thrown out at first by this remark, but I found afterwards that suicide was not often excepted in their policies on lives as by all of ours in England. — The whole objection, however, was soon replied to and put down by a very fine young woman, who said, " that though it might be difficult to answer the objection, she knew, personally, it had been carried too far, having been at home herself two nights following, only three years before, but that by taking a few nervous draughts and going to three balls every night for a fortnight afterwards, she got well in less than a month." This was quite decisive, and as I now saw thatmy