The things we do!

" "Oh, Charles! if you would but go oftener!" sighs
Lady Anna Maria. "Can't you speak to the Home Secretary? Can't you do
something for him?" "We can ask him to dinner next Wednesday if you
like," Says Charles. "They say he's a pleasant fellow out of the wood.
Besides there is no use in doing anything for him," Charles goes on. "He
can't make less than a thousand a year out of his chapel, and that is
better than anything any one can give him. A thousand a year, besides the
rent of the wine-vaults below the chapel."
"Don't, Charles!" says his wife, with a solemn look. "Don't ridicule
things in that way.
"Confound it! there are wine-vaults under the chapel!" answers downright
Charles. "I saw the name, Sherrick and Co.; offices, a green door, and a
brass plate. It's better to sit over vaults with wine in them than
coffins. I wonder whether it's the Sherrick with whom Kew and Jack
Belsize had that ugly row?"
"What ugly row?--don't say ugly row. It is not a nice word to hear the
children use.


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