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visitors in her own drawing-room, or a guest herself at the residence of a friend; what a metamorphosis! Her manners have undergone the same mutation as her raiment! Whose bearing can be more decorous than hers? Look at the graceful attitude in which she sits! See with what conscious dignity she walks! Listen to her voice, softened to the low tone of good-breeding! Mark how choice are her expressions! How highly proper are the sentiments to which she gives utterance! With the adornment of her person, her character is becomingly apparelled, and both are charmingly revealed together. Strange to say, this illusive sheen and enamel are such admirable counterfeits that they pass for genuine brilliancy and polish. She almost makes you doubt that you ever heard her use the unrefined phrases that shocked your ears, perhaps that very morning; or that you really beheld her bustling about, scolding the children, flying at the servants, snubbing her husband, and going into "tantrums" over the fracture of china. The destruction of all the porcelain treasures of Sévres could not ruffle those fine feathers which she now wears so complacently, or make her forget the rôle for which she is so elaborately costumed.

Mr. Lipscome's deportment is subject to the same singular variability, dependent upon his toilette. In his shabby business suit, or in his faded dressing-gown and well-worn slippers, he is un-