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-The Project Gutenberg EBook of Broken to Harness, by Edmund Yates
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-Title: Broken to Harness
-       A Story of English Domestic Life
 
-Author: Edmund Yates
-
-Release Date: April 4, 2019 [EBook #59207]
-
-Language: English
-
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-Produced by Charles Bowen from page scans provided by Google Books
 
 
 
@@ -44,8 +22,8 @@ BY EDMUND YATES,
 AUTHOR OF "THE ROCK AHEAD," "BLACK SHEEP," ETC. ETC.
 
 
-"Mit dem Gürtel, mit dem Schleier,
-Reisst der schöner Wahn entzwei."
+"Mit dem Gürtel, mit dem Schleier,
+Reisst der schöner Wahn entzwei."
 
 
 
@@ -105,7 +83,7 @@ CHAP.
         XV. Mother and Son.
         XV. "For better, for worse."
       XVII. Mining Operations.
-     XVIII. The Schröders at Home.
+     XVIII. The Schröders at Home.
        XIX. The Old or the New?
         XX. Churchill's at Home.
        XXI. The Flybynights.
@@ -436,7 +414,7 @@ grounds, in the broad county of Sussex, where it stood. Contrast is
 the great thing, after all: tall men marry short women; the most
 thickset nursery-maids struggle a-tiptoe to keep step with the
 lengthiest members of the Foot-Guards; Plimnims the poet, who is of
-the Sybarite-roseleaf order, sighs for Miss Crupper the _écuyère_, who
+the Sybarite-roseleaf order, sighs for Miss Crupper the _écuyère_, who
 calls a horse an oss, and a donkey a hass; and so you, if you had been
 staying at Brighton, and had gone on an excursion at half-a-crown an
 hour into the inner country, would have fallen in love with Bissett
@@ -618,7 +596,7 @@ clear, gray; his lips slightly full, and his teeth sound and regular.
 He is in his invariable morning dress,--a blue coat with brass
 buttons, a buff waistcoat, and gray trousers with gaping dog's-eared
 pockets, into which his hands are always plunged. Looking at him now,
-you would scarcely recognise the _roué_ of George the Fourth's time,
+you would scarcely recognise the _roué_ of George the Fourth's time,
 the Poins to the wild Prince, the hero of a hundred intrigues and
 escapades. In heat and turmoil, in drinking, dicing, and dancing,
 Marmaduke Wentworth passed his early youth; and from this debauchery
@@ -686,7 +664,7 @@ is Barbara Lexden. Three years ago, when, at nineteen, she was
 presented, she created a _furore_; and even now, though her first
 freshness is gone, she is even more beautiful--has rounded
 and ripened, and holds her own with the best in town. More
-_distingué_-looking than beautiful, though, is Barbara. Het face is a
+_distingué_-looking than beautiful, though, is Barbara. Het face is a
 little too long for perfect oval; her nose is very slightly aquiline,
 with delicately curved, thin, transparent nostrils; her forehead
 marked with two deep lines, from a curious trick of elevating her
@@ -760,7 +738,7 @@ Lexden characteristic, and rejoiced over greatly. So Barbara was sent
 to Paris for three years, and came back at seventeen finished in
 education, ripened in beauty, and a thorough coquette at heart. Of
 course she had already had several _affaires_: several with the
-professors attached to the Champs-Elysées _pension_; one with an
+professors attached to the Champs-Elysées _pension_; one with an
 Italian count, who bribed the ladies'-maid to convey notes, and who
 was subsequently thrashed and instructed in the _savate_ by the
 Auvergnat porter of the establishment; and one with an English
@@ -1035,7 +1013,7 @@ my 'Hercules, my Roman Antony,' Captain Lyster."
 
 "No; you've been good enough to spare me. You've known me too long,
 and think of me, rightly enough perhaps, as the 'dull, cold-blooded
-Cæsar;' and there's no one here that's at all available except Stone,
+Cæsar;' and there's no one here that's at all available except Stone,
 and his berth with Sir Marmaduke is like a college-fellowship--he'd
 have to resign all income if he married. It's an awful position for
 you! Oh, by Jove, I forgot the two men coming! I'm afraid Charley
@@ -1227,7 +1205,7 @@ hinted at, of the daughters of Shame under many a pretty alias; and it
 is because one of these aliases describes the calling of which Kate
 Mellon was the most successful follower, that I am so desirous of
 clearing her good name, and immediately vindicating her position with
-my readers. Kate Mellon was a horsebreaker, a _bonâ-fide_
+my readers. Kate Mellon was a horsebreaker, a _bonâ-fide_
 horsebreaker; one who curbed colts, and "took it out of" kickers and
 rearers, and taught wild Irish horses and four-year-olds fresh from
 Yorkshire spinneys to curvet and caper prettily in the Park. She
@@ -1246,7 +1224,7 @@ inspect the process, than she was to the stable-helpers' wives and
 children, who all worshipped her for her openhanded generosity. Tommy
 Orme who was popularly supposed to be a hundred and fifty years old,
 but who lived with the youth of the Household Brigade and the Foreign
-Office and the _coryphées_, and who knew every body remarkable in any
+Office and the _coryphées_, and who knew every body remarkable in any
 one way, never was tired of telling how Kate, teaching the Dowager
 Lady Wylminster to drive a pair of spirited dun ponies, had, in the
 grand lady's idea, intrenched upon her prerogative, and was told that
@@ -1462,7 +1440,7 @@ wretched. You've scarcely spoken all the evening, and you ate no
 dinner, and you drank a great deal of wine."
 
 "You're a pretty hostess, Kitty! You've checked off my dinner like the
-keeper of a _table-d'hôte_."
+keeper of a _table-d'hôte_."
 
 "Well, you know you might drink the cellar dry, if you liked. But
 you're all out of sorts, Charley; tell me all about it, I say!"
@@ -1554,7 +1532,7 @@ For a while Kate Mellon stood motionless, then stamped her foot
 violently, and sank into a chair, covering her face with her hands,
 through which the tears welled slowly. Rousing herself at length,
 she hurried to a writing-table, pulled out a gaudily-decorated
-_papier-mâché_ blotting-book, and commenced scrawling a letter. She
+_papier-mâché_ blotting-book, and commenced scrawling a letter. She
 wrote hurriedly, passionately, until she had covered the sheet,
 running her gold pen-holder through the tangled mass of hair at the
 back of her head, and twisting a stick of sealing-wax with her teeth
@@ -1623,7 +1601,7 @@ on which you entered."
 
 "You do me a great deal too much honour, Miss Lexden," replied
 Churchill, laughing; "my pursuits are of a very desultory nature, and
-in all of them I observe Talleyrand's caution,--_Point de zèle_."
+in all of them I observe Talleyrand's caution,--_Point de zèle_."
 
 "And you carry that out in every thing?"
 
@@ -1645,7 +1623,7 @@ joint and the table-beer, are not by any means to be despised; and as
 for the rest of it, not being a diplomatist, Miss Lexden, I have no
 occasion to play the agreeable to any one save in my own house, and,
 being a bachelor, the only woman I have to see to as properly
-_soignée_ is my old mother, and I _do_ like her to have the best of
+_soignée_ is my old mother, and I _do_ like her to have the best of
 every thing."
 
 "Your mother lives with you?"
@@ -1680,7 +1658,7 @@ only conditions which I require from my friends."
 
 "And they are--?" asked Churchill.
 
-"_Qu'on exécute mes orders_, as Louis Napoleon said when asked what
+"_Qu'on exécute mes orders_, as Louis Napoleon said when asked what
 should be done on the Second of December. So long as my commands are
 obeyed, I am amiability itself."
 
@@ -1700,8 +1678,8 @@ worth embalming in a leader."
 
 "Now I know you're laughing, and I hate to be laughed at--"
 
-"By no means; I subscribe the roll. I am now one of the _âmes
-damnées_, sworn to obey the spell of the sorceress; and the spell
+"By no means; I subscribe the roll. I am now one of the _âmes
+damnées_, sworn to obey the spell of the sorceress; and the spell
 is--?"
 
 "Nothing. Never mind. You will know easily enough when it is once
@@ -1768,7 +1746,7 @@ whole course of his previous life, gone through so much actual
 thinking as since he knew Miss Townshend. There was, perhaps, no
 species of flirtation in which he was not an adept, for he had
 sufficient brains to do what he called the "talkee-talkee;" while his
-natural idleness enabled him to carry on a silent _solitude à deux_,
+natural idleness enabled him to carry on a silent _solitude à deux_,
 and to make great play with an occasional elevation of the eyebrow or
 touch of the hand. He had run through a thorough course of garrison
 hacks, and had seen all the best produce of the export Indian market;
@@ -1806,7 +1784,7 @@ nonsense, Churchill and Barbara are stepping ahead, thoroughly
 engrossed in their conversation. He is talking now, telling her of a
 German adventure of his; how, with some other students, he made the
 descent of the Rhine on one of the timber-rafts; how they came to
-grief just below the Lôrely, and were all nearly drowned. He tells
+grief just below the Lôrely, and were all nearly drowned. He tells
 this with great animation and with many gestures, acting out his
 story, as is his wont; and throughout all he has a sensation of
 pleasure as he catches glimpses of her upturned earnest face, lighting
@@ -1816,7 +1794,7 @@ drawl, all her society tricks and byplay, and shows more of the real
 woman than she has for many a day. They talk of Germany and its
 literature, of Goethe and Schiller and Heine; and he tells her some of
 those stories of Hoffmann which are such special favourites with
-_Bürschen_. Thus they pass on to our home poets; and here Barbara is
+_Bürschen_. Thus they pass on to our home poets; and here Barbara is
 the talker, Churchill listening and occasionally commenting. Barbara
 has read much, and talks well. It is an utter mistake to suppose that
 women nowadays have what we have been accustomed, as a term of
@@ -1825,19 +1803,19 @@ survey of that room which Barbara called her own in her aunt's house
 in Gloucester Place would have served to dispel any such idea. On the
 walls were proofs of Leonardo's "Last Supper" and Landseers "Shoeing
 the Horse;" a print of Delaroche's "Execution of Lady Jane Grey;" a
-large framed photograph of Gerome's "Death of Cæsar;" an old-fashioned
+large framed photograph of Gerome's "Death of Cæsar;" an old-fashioned
 pencil-sketch of Barbara's father, taken in the old days by D'Orsay
 long before he ever thought of turning that pencil to actual use; and
 a coloured photograph--a recent acquisition--of a girl sitting over a
 wood-fire in a dreamy attitude, burning her love-letters, called
-"L' Auto da Fé." On the bookshelves you would have found Milton,
-Thomas à-Kempis, _David Copperfield_, _The Christmas Carol_, a
+"L' Auto da Fé." On the bookshelves you would have found Milton,
+Thomas à-Kempis, _David Copperfield_, _The Christmas Carol_, a
 much-used Tennyson, Keats, George Herbert's Poems, Quarles' _Emblems_,
 _The Christian Year_, Carlyle's _French Revolution_, Dante, Schiller,
 _Faust_, Tupper (of course! "and it is merely envy that makes you
 laugh at him," she always said), _The Newcomes_, and a quarto
 Shakespeare. No French novels, I am glad to say; but a fat little
-Béranger, and a yellow-covered Alfred de Musset are on the
+Béranger, and a yellow-covered Alfred de Musset are on the
 mantelpiece, while a brass-cross-bearing red-edged Prayer-Book lies
 on the table by the bed. Barbara's books were not show-books; they all
 bore more or less the signs of use; but she had read them in a
@@ -1877,7 +1855,7 @@ virtue in the cut of a coat and vice in the adjustment of a cravat.
 Moreover, we pen-and-ink workers have, in such cases, an advantage
 over our brethren of the pencil, inasmuch as we can take our readers
 by the button-hole, and lead them out of the main current of the
-story, showing them our heroes and heroines in _déshabille_, and,
+story, showing them our heroes and heroines in _déshabille_, and,
 through the medium of that window which Vulcan wished had been fixed
 in the human breast--and which really is there, for the novelist's
 inspection--making them acquainted with the inmost thoughts and
@@ -1886,9 +1864,9 @@ feelings of the puppets moving before them.
 When Barbara went to her room that night and surrendered herself to
 Parker and the hair-brushes, that pattern of ladies'-maids thought
 that she had never seen her mistress so preoccupied since Karl von
-Knitzler, an _attaché_ of the Austrian Embassy,--who ran for a whole
+Knitzler, an _attaché_ of the Austrian Embassy,--who ran for a whole
 season in the ruck of the Lexden's admirers, and at last thought he
-had strength for the first flight,--had received his _coup de grâce_.
+had strength for the first flight,--had received his _coup de grâce_.
 In her wonderment Parker gave two or three hardish tugs at the hair
 which she was manipulating, but received no reproof; for the inside of
 that little head was so busy as to render it almost insensible to the
@@ -2016,7 +1994,7 @@ I'll trouble you for a skilful help of that game-pie."
 
 Churchill remained firm; he was still at breakfast, and his letters
 remained unopened in his pocket, when Barbara left the room to prepare
-for a drive with Miss Townshend. As they reëntered the avenue after a
+for a drive with Miss Townshend. As they reëntered the avenue after a
 two hours' turn round the Downs, they met Captain Lyster in a
 dog-cart.
 
@@ -2231,7 +2209,7 @@ soon see the reception you'd get."
 introduced into some of our public departments. I have a nephew in the
 Draft-and-Docket Office, whom I called upon about one o'clock the
 other day, and I found him engaged upon some very excellent
-_cotelettes à la Soubise_, which he told me were prepared in the
+_cotelettes à la Soubise_, which he told me were prepared in the
 establishment. That appears to me a most admirable arrangement."
 
 "Very admirable," growled Sir Marmaduke "for the public, who are
@@ -2304,7 +2282,7 @@ always the way. Poor thing: I pity the young woman. These sort of
 persons always stay out all night, and ill-treat their wives, and all
 that kind of thing."
 
-"Dear, dear!" said Mrs. Vincent; "leg-of-mutton _ménage_ and
+"Dear, dear!" said Mrs. Vincent; "leg-of-mutton _ménage_ and
 batter-pudding, perhaps; no soup or fish. Dear, dear! what unwholesome
 things these love-marriages are!"
 
@@ -2366,7 +2344,7 @@ no engagement fettered him--to talk, indeed, as though no notion of
 matrimony had ever crossed his mind? Could he--? No; that was
 impossible. He could not have been playing with her--making a fool of
 her? What was that he had said about difference of class in marriage?
-Ay, that settled the question; the _fiancée_ was probably some dowdy
+Ay, that settled the question; the _fiancée_ was probably some dowdy
 woman, who could make a pie, and mend his clothes, and keep their
 maid-of-all-work in order. Well, the man was nothing to her--but she
 hoped he might be happy. It was getting very dull at Bissett, and she
@@ -2456,7 +2434,7 @@ reflection as he lay awake in the watches of the night, and the
 discovery, real or imaginary, of a further diminution of hair on the
 crown of his head, had determined him upon asking Miss Townshend to
 become his wife without any further delay. There was something in her
-fresh, cheery, pleasant manner that specially appealed to this _blasé_
+fresh, cheery, pleasant manner that specially appealed to this _blasé_
 cynic; she was so unlike the women he had been accustomed to mix with
 in society, who were generally weak imitations of Barbara Lexden, or
 opinionless misses, who held "yea" and "nay" to be the sole
@@ -2733,7 +2711,7 @@ oakum-picking in expiation of his fraudulent practices? There must be
 no mistake on this head; it would be a pretty thing if he, Charles
 Beresford, were not merely to find himself after a year or two with a
 penniless wife upon his hands, but were also to have the world talking
-about his _mésalliance_. As to the idea of rejection, that had
+about his _mésalliance_. As to the idea of rejection, that had
 scarcely entered his head. He was generally liked by women, and
 thought Miss Townshend no exception to the rule. Her father perhaps
 might look for money, and then he should have to square him as best he
@@ -2815,7 +2793,7 @@ more the aspect of Ramsgate or Margate. In place of the dashing
 carriages, flys at half-a-crown an hour crawl up and down the King's
 Road, the horses, perfectly accustomed to the dreary job, ambling
 along at their own sleepy pace; the riding-masters are still to the
-fore, but for pupils, instead of the brilliant _écuyères_, they have
+fore, but for pupils, instead of the brilliant _écuyères_, they have
 heavy, clumsy girls in hired habits and hideous hats. All the officers
 of the cavalry regiment who can get leave, take it; and those who
 cannot, devote themselves to tobacco in the solitude of their
@@ -2880,12 +2858,12 @@ the world goes, his life had been tolerably pure, he had in his
 student-days, and in the time immediately subsequent, had his
 _amourettes_ and flirtations like the rest; but when he remembered
 what had been his feelings for Gretchen, the fat and fair daughter of
-Anton Schütz, the beery saddler; for Ernestine, the sentimental
-heiress of the Graf von Triebenfeld; for Eugénie and Olympe, vestals
+Anton Schütz, the beery saddler; for Ernestine, the sentimental
+heiress of the Graf von Triebenfeld; for Eugénie and Olympe, vestals
 of the Quartier Latin; or for any of the half-hundred young ladies
 with whom during the earlier portion of his London career he
 had gone through the usual bouquet-sending, cotillon-dancing,
-Botanical-Fête-meeting flirtation,--he recognised at once that this
+Botanical-Fête-meeting flirtation,--he recognised at once that this
 was a very different matter. Breakers ahead and all round! As for
 Barbara, he felt conscious of no vanity in avowing to himself his
 perception of having excited her interest, but whether sufficiently to
@@ -2923,7 +2901,7 @@ beyond!--children born and reared in that dingy atmosphere, further
 expenditure to be met, perhaps sickness to be struggled through, and
 all the household gods dependent on him,--on the soundness of his
 health and the clearness of his brain, which failing, what had they to
-look to? _Aïe de me!_ that last thought settled the question. Let it
+look to? _Aïe de me!_ that last thought settled the question. Let it
 fade out, pleasant dream that it was; or rather let him crush it for
 ever! It was impossible, and so let it pass. Down go the Spanish
 castles, away melt the aerial estates; Duty's foot kicks away
@@ -3373,7 +3351,7 @@ leaping, and all the rest of it."
 as Kingsley has it. What a pity they haven't asked me!"
 
 "You're going, Prescott, I suppose?" asked Kinchenton. "The Eyres are
-friends of yours--you're going to their fête?"
+friends of yours--you're going to their fête?"
 
 "I! no, Padre," was the reply; "I'm not going."
 
@@ -3382,7 +3360,7 @@ but he'll get better."
 
 
 'Now he has turned himself wholly to love and follows a damsel,
- Caring no more for honour, or glory, or Pallas Athené.'
+ Caring no more for honour, or glory, or Pallas Athené.'
 
 
 Kingsley again--hem!"
@@ -3711,7 +3689,7 @@ grant them odd days and even weeks of leave of absence; of chatting
 with him familiarly on current events. Mr. Simnel's manners
 effectually checked all that kind of thing. With the Commissioners he
 might unbend; with the juniors he was adamant. But if he met one of
-his men in society, in the Opera lobby, or at a Botanical Fête, he
+his men in society, in the Opera lobby, or at a Botanical Fête, he
 would make a point of shaking hands with him as though they hadn't
 seen each other for ages, and of talking with him of every subject
 possible--except the Tin-Tax Office.
@@ -3727,7 +3705,7 @@ up, saw Mr. Beresford.
 
 "Why, what the deuce does this mean?" he exclaimed, in surprise. "I
 thought you were on Tom Tiddler's ground, picking up unlimited gold
-and silver, wooing heiresses, and settling a Belgravian ménage; and
+and silver, wooing heiresses, and settling a Belgravian ménage; and
 you turn up in this dingy old barrack. Is it all over?--has the lady
 succumbed? and do you want me to help you to choose fire-irons and
 window-curtains?"
@@ -3766,10 +3744,10 @@ was all right, I made up my mind to see where I was."
 
 "Not at all! We were sitting after dinner, when the women had gone to
 the drawing-room, the very day I got your telegram, and old Wentworth
-told us there was a man coming down the next day,--Schrötter, or
-Schröder, a German merchant in Mincing Lane--"
+told us there was a man coming down the next day,--Schrötter, or
+Schröder, a German merchant in Mincing Lane--"
 
-"I know him," interrupted Simnel: "Gustav Schröder; elderly man. What
+"I know him," interrupted Simnel: "Gustav Schröder; elderly man. What
 took him to Bissett?"
 
 "Love, sir--love! he's engaged to be married to Miss Townshend!"
@@ -3867,7 +3845,7 @@ Then Mr. Simnel returned to his desk, and took up his leg again.
 
 "It seems to be coming on now," he said to himself, "and all together
 too. The old man always meant little Alice for a Duke, and now to let
-her go to such carrion as old Schröder; that looks like smash. He
+her go to such carrion as old Schröder; that looks like smash. He
 holds heavily in Pernambucos, in Cotopaxis, and other stuff that's run
 down like water lately; and he must have dropped at least ten thousand
 in that blessed Bird-in-the-Hand insurance. I think the time has come
@@ -4070,7 +4048,7 @@ seen a good many offices in his time, but never one like this. He had
 never seen an office with musical instruments in it before; and here
 were four or five pianos standing ranged against the wall, to say
 nothing of harps in leather cases leaning drunkenly in corners, and a
-few cornets-à-piston in green boxes, and a guitar or two with blue
+few cornets-à-piston in green boxes, and a guitar or two with blue
 ribbons to hang them round your neck by, just as if they had come
 fresh from the necks of Spanish _donnas_. And there were
 slack-baked-looking old pictures in heavy Dutch-metal frames--fine
@@ -4358,7 +4336,7 @@ and waits her advent.
 
 It does not take long for that chestnut mare to cover the distance,
 albeit she is being ridden from side to side, and is evidently
-receiving her "finishing" in the elegancies of the _manège_ In less
+receiving her "finishing" in the elegancies of the _manège_ In less
 than two minutes she is pulled up short by the rails where Prescott is
 standing, and her rider, Kate Mellon, with the colour flushing in her
 cheeks, with her eyes aglow, with her hair a trifle dishevelled from
@@ -4612,7 +4590,7 @@ whether--"
 you be, I suppose" (and she glanced slyly at him), "moping by
 yourself, and there shall I be with another round of that horrible
 season before me, thinking of you, longing for you, and yet having to
-undergo all the detestable nonsense of balls and parties and _fêtes_,
+undergo all the detestable nonsense of balls and parties and _fêtes_,
 which I so thoroughly despise--for what? At the end to find ourselves
 a year older, and you perhaps a few pounds richer. As though riches
 made happiness!" said poor Barbara, who, since she had come to what
@@ -4639,7 +4617,7 @@ at home with papa, I knew what poverty was; such poverty as would make
 what you speak of wealth by comparison. Besides, shall we not be
 together to share it? And you'll buy me a--what do they call it?--a
 cookery book, and I'll learn all kinds of housekeeping ways. I can do
-some things already; Guérin, the Morrisons' _chef_--who was a little
+some things already; Guérin, the Morrisons' _chef_--who was a little
 struck with me, I think, sir--showed Clara Morrison and me how to make
 an omelette; and Maurice Gladstone--my cousin Maurice, you know; when
 we were staying at Sandgate, he was quartered at Shorncliffe--taught
@@ -4720,7 +4698,7 @@ wound and send limping to the rear any one who rashly chanced to
 answer or gainsay her. Women, with that strange blundering upon the
 right so often seen among them, seemed to guess the diabolical power
 of the old lady's missiles, and avoided them with graceful ease,
-making gentle _détours_, which led them out of harm's way, or cowering
+making gentle _détours_, which led them out of harm's way, or cowering
 for shelter in elegant attitudes under projecting platitudes; but men,
 in their conscious self-strength, would often stand up to bear the
 brunt of an argument, and always came away worsted from the fight. So
@@ -4800,7 +4778,7 @@ narrated. She was a pleasant-looking old lady, with a fat,
 wrinkleless, full face, like an old child, with a shiny pink-and-white
 complexion, and with hair which defied you to tell whether it had been
 wonderfully well preserved, or admirably dyed, arranged under a
-becoming cap. She was dressed in a rich brown moiré-antique silk, and
+becoming cap. She was dressed in a rich brown moiré-antique silk, and
 with a black-lace shawl thrown over her ample shoulders; her fat,
 pudgy little hands, covered with valuable rings, were crossed over the
 book on her lap; and she was just on the point of dropping off into a
@@ -4885,10 +4863,10 @@ prospect of opposition, and that her determination to have her own way
 had strengthened rather than lessened from her aunt's treatment.
 
 There was an accession to the dinner-table that day in the person of
-Mr. Schröder, a German long resident in England, and partner in the
-great house of Schröder, Stutterheim, Hinterhaus, and Company, bankers
+Mr. Schröder, a German long resident in England, and partner in the
+great house of Schröder, Stutterheim, Hinterhaus, and Company, bankers
 and brokers, which had branches and ramifications in all the principal
-cities of the world. No one would have judged Gustav Schröder to have
+cities of the world. No one would have judged Gustav Schröder to have
 been a keen financier and a consummate master of his business from his
 personal appearance. He was between fifty-five and sixty years old,
 heavy and dull-looking, with short, stubbly, iron-gray hair, dull
@@ -5079,7 +5057,7 @@ make them look all their own, redeemed many of his shortcomings, and
 caused him to be continued in favour at Minerva House. But when he
 fell in love with the pretty teacher, and muttered love to her as he
 was sharpening pencil-points, and was seen by the writing-master--an
-old person of seventy, who was jealous of his young _confrère_--to
+old person of seventy, who was jealous of his young _confrère_--to
 hand her a note in a copy of the _Laws of Perspective_, and on being
 taxed with his crime acknowledged it and gloried in it, it became
 impossible for the Miss Inderwicks, as the girls called them, or the
@@ -5135,7 +5113,7 @@ eccentricities, and saying of the world as Balzac's actress said,
 "_Qu'importe? donne leur des grimaces pour leur argent, et vivons
 heureux!_"
 
-Petted and fêted by the style of society in which he revelled, Vance
+Petted and fêted by the style of society in which he revelled, Vance
 Churchill had yet the grace not to attempt to force his wife to join
 it; indeed he had good reason for keeping her away. For the ladies
 liked Vance Churchill vastly, and Vance returned the compliment, and
@@ -5273,7 +5251,7 @@ arms.
 her embrace. "You must be famished for your dinner, my poor fellow!"
 
 "Excursion-trains, mother, your favourite doctrine of health and
-change for your old _protégé_ the working-man, you know, have
+change for your old _protégé_ the working-man, you know, have
 contributed to your anxiety and my delay. We were stopped at Forest
 Hill for a train full of people, with drooping hats and feathers and
 banners and bands and general tomfoolery, who had been having a day at
@@ -5527,7 +5505,7 @@ Miss Lexden left on the evening of the day on which Churchill
 returned, without seeing him or taking farewell of any of the
 household. Mr. Townshend would have liked to go too, but his daughter
 strongly objected, determining to remain with Barbara; a determination
-in which she was well supported by Mr. Schröder, who had taken great
+in which she was well supported by Mr. Schröder, who had taken great
 interest in Barbara's "love-affair" ever since it had been made
 public--as apparently seeing therein an excess of romance which might
 cast a halo over his own somewhat meagre and prosaic wooing. Mrs.
@@ -5560,7 +5538,7 @@ received a packet containing a necklace of ivy-leaves in dead
 deep-coloured gold, with earrings to match, and in the case Captain
 Lyster's card, with "With all good wishes" written on it; while a
 splendid enamel and diamond bracelet came to her as the joint gift of
-Mr. Schröder and Alice Townshend.
+Mr. Schröder and Alice Townshend.
 
 
 While the happy couple were honeymooning it in the north of Devon,
@@ -5663,7 +5641,7 @@ coevals. To the Faubourg and its inhabitants, however, his visits were
 principally confined; he had never yielded allegiance to the Imperial
 Court, and used to speak of it and its august head in a very
 disparaging manner. "Gad, sir!" he would say in the smoke-room of
-Meurice's, after his return from the Français or from some grand
+Meurice's, after his return from the Français or from some grand
 reception,--"Gad, sir! I've a very low opinion of your what d'ye call
 him?--your Emperor! met him often when he was in England,--at Gore
 House, and two or three other places; always found him a silent,
@@ -5672,13 +5650,13 @@ make out that he holds his tongue to think the more; like the monkey,
 you know. My belief is, that he's so deuced quiet because he's got
 nothing to say. And his surroundings, my dear fellow! his
 surroundings, awful! De Rossignol, who was a billiard-marker or a
-singer at a _café chantant_, or something of that kind; Oltenhaus, the
+singer at a _café chantant_, or something of that kind; Oltenhaus, the
 financier, who is a Polish Jew, of the worst stamp; and O'Malley, the
 Marshal, a mere Irish adventurer! That is not the sort of stuff for
 Courts, sir!--the sweepings of the Boulevard theatres, the Juden-Gasse
 at Frankfort, and the long-sword, saddle, bridle, whack-fol-de-rol,
-and all the rest of it, of the bold dragoon! _Vieille école bonne
-école_ is a good maxim, by Jove! They mayn't be clever; but they're
+and all the rest of it, of the bold dragoon! _Vieille école bonne
+école_ is a good maxim, by Jove! They mayn't be clever; but they're
 gentle-people at least, and that's not saying a little for them!"
 
 So the old gentleman growled to the little select circle round him,
@@ -5705,7 +5683,7 @@ had been persuaded into attending one of these public balls; but the
 sight of his deep white choker, straight-brushed whiskers aid solemn
 old mug, had such an effect on the dancers,--Jules utterly missing his
 great bound in the _cavalier seul_, and Eulalie failing to touch her
-_vis-à-vis_ shoulder with her toe in the _en avant deux_,--that he was
+_vis-à-vis_ shoulder with her toe in the _en avant deux_,--that he was
 requested to confine his _tristesse_ to some other place; and as he
 was really not amused, he willingly consented. So, after that, he
 remained at Meurice's, generally sitting solitary in a crowd of
@@ -5751,7 +5729,7 @@ Marmaduke fell asleep.
 When, in the course of the next day, he called upon Miss Lexden, he
 found that lady in the highest spirits. "I knew you were here, Sir
 Marmaduke," said she. "I've had Cabanel here;--you recollect little
-Cabanel? Spanish-looking little fellow with black eyes; was an attaché
+Cabanel? Spanish-looking little fellow with black eyes; was an attaché
 when the Walewskis were in London; and he saw you at the duchess's
 last week. You're going there to-morrow of course? How well you look!
 that's the climate, you know, and the style of life; so much better
@@ -5873,7 +5851,7 @@ Oh, by the way, I see that marriage has come off?"
 "That man Churchill, who was staying with you at old Wentworth's, has
 married that dashing girl--what was her name--?--Lexden!"
 
-"Yes; and the _other_ marriage has come off. Old Schröder is one flesh
+"Yes; and the _other_ marriage has come off. Old Schröder is one flesh
 now with Miss Townshend; that's a nice thing to think of, isn't it?"
 
 "Ay, I heard of that too; saw it in the paper of course; but beyond
@@ -5891,7 +5869,7 @@ hand just now! no combination of money and beauty, as Jack Palmer
 says, when he rides with Schwarzchild into the City?"
 
 "None! I've had no chance; but I should think this wouldn't be a bad
-opening. They are a tremendously well-tinned set at Schröder's; and
+opening. They are a tremendously well-tinned set at Schröder's; and
 he's safe to ask no women who are not enormously ingotted. With such
 girls, unaccustomed to any thing but what was Paddington and is now
 Tyburnia, one might have a chance, for they've seen nothing decent
@@ -5907,9 +5885,9 @@ fellow than Jim breathes, and there's always capital sport to be got
 at his place; but the cooking is something indescribably atrocious.
 One always feels inclined, when he asks you what you'd like for
 dinner, to use the old _mot_, and say, '_Chez vous, monsieur, on
-mange, mais on ne dîne pas_.' After a month's experience of
+mange, mais on ne dîne pas_.' After a month's experience of
 Coverdale's cook, I am looking forward with eager anticipation to the
-performances of such an artist as Schröder will probably employ."
+performances of such an artist as Schröder will probably employ."
 
 "I should think," said Mr. Simnel, after a minute's pause--"I should
 think it probable that Mr. Townshend will be there."
@@ -5946,7 +5924,7 @@ course, it depends upon yourself how you bring it in."
 And Mr. Beresford, with a vivid recollection of owing eight hundred
 pounds to Mr. Simnel, undertook the commission.
 
-About the same time Mr. Schröder's domestic arrangements were being
+About the same time Mr. Schröder's domestic arrangements were being
 discussed under the same roof, in No. 120.
 
 "What are you going to do on Thursday night, Jim?" asked Mr. Pringle
@@ -5968,7 +5946,7 @@ ask who the people are! Well; they are connexions of mine. Old
 Townshend, my godfather, who's an old beast, and who never gave me any
 thing except a tip of half-a-crown once when I was going to school,
 has married his daughter--deuced pretty girl she is too--to a no-end
-rich City party--Schröder by name. And Mrs. Schröder is 'at home' on
+rich City party--Schröder by name. And Mrs. Schröder is 'at home' on
 Thursday evening, 'small and early;' and I've got a card, and can take
 you. There's a dinner-party first, I hear, but I'm not asked to that."
 
@@ -5993,11 +5971,11 @@ there; and go into the vortex together."
 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII.
-THE SCHRÖDERS AT HOME.
+THE SCHRÖDERS AT HOME.
 
 
 Mr. Beresford was thoroughly well-informed when he announced Miss
-Townshend's marriage with M. Gustav Schröder. That event took place
+Townshend's marriage with M. Gustav Schröder. That event took place
 almost immediately after the break-up of the party at Bissett Grange,
 and Sir Marmaduke attended it on his way through to Paris. The wedding
 was a very grand affair, and created quite a sensation in the dead
@@ -6012,16 +5990,16 @@ as eleven A.M., and to peer out of the window at the cavalcade;
 satisfying themselves with a very short glance, however, and returning
 to their couches again with great alacrity. Very great magnates in the
 banking world, the brokering world, the colonial-export world, and the
-shipping world, were present; as were M. Heinrich Schröder,
+shipping world, were present; as were M. Heinrich Schröder,
 representative of the house at Frankfort, a bent shrivelled old
 gentleman, with marked Jewish profile; thin hands always plucking at
 his thin lips, and a very small knowledge of the English language;--M.
-Louis Schröder, who represented the house at Paris, a man of forty,
+Louis Schröder, who represented the house at Paris, a man of forty,
 short, stout, genial, and jolly; speaking all languages with equal
 ease; with a keen eye for making money, but enjoying nothing better
 than spending it; drinking very little, but fond of high-living and
 high-play; and showing general sensuality in his thick scarlet lips
-and short pudgy hands; more Schröders, male and female, from Hamburg,
+and short pudgy hands; more Schröders, male and female, from Hamburg,
 from Mainz from Florence; and one--very much burnt up--who had just
 returned from losing his liver, and gaining his fortune at Ceylon. Mr.
 Townshend contributed the eminent personages in City firms above
@@ -6053,16 +6031,16 @@ from a professional wit. And the company, though not very brilliant in
 intellect, was quite brilliant enough to laugh when a bishop said a
 good thing; and every body was very well dressed; and the wedding
 presents, duly set out on a side-table, made a splendid show. The
-Schröders were to the fore in the matter of wedding presents; the City
+Schröders were to the fore in the matter of wedding presents; the City
 magnates of the Townshend connexion did pretty well, so far as silver
 tea-services, and wine-coolers, and ice-pails, and fish knives and
 forks, and splendidly-carved ivory tankards with massive silver
 covers, were concerned, and in all the usual wedding-gift nonsense of
-butter-dish and card-bowl; but the Schröders gave diamond-necklaces
+butter-dish and card-bowl; but the Schröders gave diamond-necklaces
 and sets of turquoises and opals in old-fashioned filigree settings,
 and tiny watches from Leroy's, costing 3000 francs, and Barbedienne's
 rarest bronzes, and the choicest carvings from the Frankfort Zeil. Mr.
-Schröder, too, had taken his bride elect, two days before the
+Schröder, too, had taken his bride elect, two days before the
 marriage, to Long Acre, and shown her the neat little single brougham,
 and the elegant open carriage; and then had driven on to Rice's, and
 had had trotted out the fast trotters and the elegant steppers which
@@ -6112,7 +6090,7 @@ aristocratic poor families, and suchlike, will be found bargaining for
 a ghastly little hole in Adalbert Crescent or Guelph Place, when they
 could get a capital roomy house at Highgate or Hampstead, with a big
 garden, in which their "young barbarians" could be "all at play" from
-morning till night, for far less money. Mr. Schröder's house was
+morning till night, for far less money. Mr. Schröder's house was
 furnished very expensively, and, considering all had been left to the
 upholsterer, in not bad taste. The dining-room was in light oak,
 carved high-backed chairs in green morocco; a large massive
@@ -6130,11 +6108,11 @@ dazzling light,--allowed by their worst enemies, the critics, to be
 furnished, and opening on to conservatories and boudoirs and
 canvas-covered balconies.
 
-Mr. Schröder was not the man to hide his candle under a bushel; nor,
+Mr. Schröder was not the man to hide his candle under a bushel; nor,
 having spent a vast amount of money on his house and its decorations,
 to keep them solely for the contemplation of himself and his wife: so
 it was at his suggestion that the dinner-party and reception were
-organised. Mrs. Schröder at once gave her acquiescence; indeed, just
+organised. Mrs. Schröder at once gave her acquiescence; indeed, just
 at this period of her life, she was in too dazed a state to do any
 thing more than follow suit. She knew her father to be wealthy, and
 always had lived in good style; but she also knew that her parent was
@@ -6146,18 +6124,18 @@ found that the time had come and passed; that she had not resisted at
 all; and that she was settled down with a gray-headed, elderly
 husband, who was one of the richest men in London. It was not her
 childhood's dream, perhaps; but it was by no means uncomfortable; and
-Mrs. Schröder wisely determined, to accept the riches, and to forget
+Mrs. Schröder wisely determined, to accept the riches, and to forget
 the grayness of the head; and went in for the dinner-party with
 spirit.
 
 Husband and wife furnished about an equal complement of friends to the
 banquet, which was very splendid, but at first rather dull. Old
-Heinrich Schröder, who had not yet returned to Frankfort, was present;
+Heinrich Schröder, who had not yet returned to Frankfort, was present;
 and as he spoke scarcely any English, he did not enliven the
 conversation; which, however, was often polyglot. The magnates from
 the City and their wives ate a good deal, and talked very little;
 while some of the younger and more aristocratic people brought in by
-Mrs. Schröder were silent as becomes "swells," and only occasionally
+Mrs. Schröder were silent as becomes "swells," and only occasionally
 worked eyebrow or shoulder telegraphs to each other, in silent wonder
 at, and depreciation of, their neighbours. Mr. Beresford began to be
 awfully bored, and tried topic after topic without meeting with the
@@ -6165,20 +6143,20 @@ least success. At last, however, he seemed to have stumbled on one
 that awoke a certain amount of general interest.
 
 "Seen your newly-elected brother-director of the Terra-del-Fuego
-Company yet, Mr. Schröder?" he asked.
+Company yet, Mr. Schröder?" he asked.
 
-"Colonel Levison?" said Mr. Schröder; "no, not yet; we've had no
+"Colonel Levison?" said Mr. Schröder; "no, not yet; we've had no
 board-day since his election."
 
 "Man of mark, sir," said an old gentleman, who had painted his chin
 and shirt-front with turtle-soup.
 
 "What Levison is it, Beresford?" asked Captain Lyster, who was seated
-near Mrs. Schröder.
+near Mrs. Schröder.
 
 "Jack Levison; you know him. Wonderful life he's had!"
 
-"Has he?" said Mrs. Schröder, on whom the dulness had settled like a
+"Has he?" said Mrs. Schröder, on whom the dulness had settled like a
 pall. "Oh, do tell us about it, Mr. Beresford; that is, if you may."
 
 "Oh, yes, I may," laughed Beresford; "though it's nothing much to
@@ -6193,7 +6171,7 @@ nugget, and hit upon a splendid vein; stuck to it quietly, and made a
 fortune. Realised; came back to England, and has doubled it. Curious
 life, isn't it?"
 
-"How very odd!" said Mrs. Schröder, trying to extract a remark from a
+"How very odd!" said Mrs. Schröder, trying to extract a remark from a
 very gorgeous lady on her right; "fancy, blacking boots!"
 
 "And what do you call 'em to a bus?" said the lady, who, though
@@ -6209,14 +6187,14 @@ whose life was passed in saying the wrong thing in the wrong
 place--"oh, yes; but don't you know he's Boswell Levison's brother.
 He's a Jew!"
 
-Every body looked involuntarily at old Heinrich Schröder, about whose
+Every body looked involuntarily at old Heinrich Schröder, about whose
 origin there could be no doubt, and who had that face which you may
 see repeated by hundreds in the Frankfort Juden-Gasse.
 
 "Ha! ha!" said the old gentleman, catching the last word, and finding
 himself the centre of attraction; "was Chew! ya, zo; Chew ist goot."
 
-Mr. Schröder turned a dull lead colour, and a general awe-struck
+Mr. Schröder turned a dull lead colour, and a general awe-struck
 silence fell upon the company, which was broken by Beresford, who,
 again coming to the rescue, said:
 
@@ -6234,17 +6212,17 @@ know!--where the marble comes from?"
 
 The Levison subject now being evidently exhausted, and the
 conversation becoming hopelessly-idiotic, Captain Lyster strikes in at
-a tangent, and asks Mrs. Schröder whether she has seen any thing
+a tangent, and asks Mrs. Schröder whether she has seen any thing
 recently of her friend, Mrs. Churchill,--Miss Lexden that was.
 
-Mrs. Schröder replies in the negative, adding that she had called upon
+Mrs. Schröder replies in the negative, adding that she had called upon
 Barbara "in, oh, such a strange street!" but had not found her at
 home: the Churchills had been asked to dine there that day, but had
 declined on account of Mr. Churchill's engagements. It was, however,
 probable that they might come in the evening. Hearing the name of
 Churchill mentioned, Mr. Beresford chimes in.
 
-"Ah, by the way, the Churchills! friends of yours, Mrs. Schröder? How
+"Ah, by the way, the Churchills! friends of yours, Mrs. Schröder? How
 are they getting on? Love-match, and all that kind of thing, hey?
 Clever man, Churchill; but should have kept to his own set; married
 the daughter of his printer or publisher, or some fellow of that sort;
@@ -6274,15 +6252,15 @@ argument, an elderly man marries a young girl; nothing in common
 between them; she simply married for position, or to oblige her
 parents; and he--well, I think we know the contemptible figure he
 cuts; a case of buying and selling, as you would say in the City,
-eh, Schröder?" and the cinnamon-coloured man, who was great at a
+eh, Schröder?" and the cinnamon-coloured man, who was great at a
 debating-society, looked in triumph at his host.
 
-Mr. Schröder, more leaden-coloured than ever, said, "Certainly." Mrs.
-Schröder, who had been looking down at the table, and playing with her
+Mr. Schröder, more leaden-coloured than ever, said, "Certainly." Mrs.
+Schröder, who had been looking down at the table, and playing with her
 dessert-knife, rose with the rest of the ladies, and left the room.
 After their departure, the West-end section, including Beresford,
 Lyster, and Monkhouse, seemed to get silent and abstracted; while Mr.
-Schröder's particular friends from the City, the bank-directors and
+Schröder's particular friends from the City, the bank-directors and
 public-company men, re-invigorated themselves with port, and discussed
 the politics of Threadneedle Street and the chances of change in
 the discount rate in hoarse whispers. Solemn dulness fell upon the
@@ -6298,14 +6276,14 @@ became conscious of old Mr. Townshend's voice, laying down the law, in
 most imperative style, on matters of finance, and suddenly he
 remembered his promise to Simnel. He waited for his opportunity when
 Mr. Townshend ceased for an instant, and then said: "My dear Mr.
-Schröder, you can't tell how horrible it is for us impecunious people
+Schröder, you can't tell how horrible it is for us impecunious people
 to listen to this tremendously ingotted talk. We look upon you as a
 dozen Sinbad the Sailors, each having found his own peculiar treasure
 in the Valley of Diamonds. Ah! if it were only given to me to fathom
 the secret of money-making!"
 
 The City section were pleased at this concession, and took the remarks
-as complimentary. Mr. Schröder smiled, and said sententiously:
+as complimentary. Mr. Schröder smiled, and said sententiously:
 "Business has its cares as well as its pleasures." Mr. Townshend
 nodded his head, saying, "You gentlemen despise our prosaic ways and
 business routine; with you--"
@@ -6342,13 +6320,13 @@ divinely. _Item_, Mr. Schrink, musical critic of the _Statesman_
 newspaper, a little man with a hump-back and a frightfully sensitive
 ear; a little man who would cower and, shrink under false notes, and
 stamp and growl under bad singing; a little man whom every one hated,
-and who did not particularly like himself. _Item_, Fräulein Wünster,
+and who did not particularly like himself. _Item_, Fräulein Wünster,
 one of those German young ladies who, ever since Jenny Lind's success,
 have been imported into England under the firm idea that they were
 "going to do it," and who, having filled up gaps in the Hanover Square
 and St. James's Hall concerts, have returned to _Vaterland_ without
 having made the smallest mark. Mr. Dabb, fashionable artist, whose
-portrait of Mr. Schröder decorated the walls, was there; as was Mr.
+portrait of Mr. Schröder decorated the walls, was there; as was Mr.
 Fleem, the author of _Fashion and Satire_--a young gentleman who,
 for a cynic, seemed on remarkably good terms with himself and his
 fellow-creatures. Mr. Pringle and Mr. Prescott arrived together; and
@@ -6376,7 +6354,7 @@ guests,--all seemed to render the events of the past months as a
 dream; and she had to bring her presence of mind into play to argue
 with herself.
 
-Mrs. Schröder rushed up to her at once; no doubt of the _empressement_
+Mrs. Schröder rushed up to her at once; no doubt of the _empressement_
 of her manner! affection a little too palpable, as Barbara thought.
 
 "Oh, Barbara darling! so glad you're come! I thought you'd
@@ -6384,7 +6362,7 @@ disappointed us. How late you are!"
 
 "Frank was detained; as I expected, Alice; make him explain himself."
 
-"No occasion for that, I hope? Mrs. Schröder," said Churchill; "the
+"No occasion for that, I hope? Mrs. Schröder," said Churchill; "the
 slaves of the lamp, you know!"
 
 "Oh, there! that horrible business! your constant excuse; you're all
@@ -6392,7 +6370,7 @@ alike. Gustav! Gustav! here's Mr. Churchill excusing himself from
 being late, and pleads business; take him away, and discuss the
 wretched subject together. I want to talk to Barbara,--a long talk.
 No, Gustav! I don't care what you say about my duties as hostess: I
-_will_ talk to my old friend!" So Schröder and Churchill went off, and
+_will_ talk to my old friend!" So Schröder and Churchill went off, and
 Alice and Barbara seated themselves in a far window.
 
 "Now, Barbara dear, tell me every thing. I needn't ask you if you're
@@ -6428,10 +6406,10 @@ at home, hitherto; but of course there may be occasions when he will
 be obliged to be out."
 
 "You must come to us then. Promise! won't you, Barbara dear? You'll
-like Mr. Schröder; at least I think you will. He's very quiet; but so
+like Mr. Schröder; at least I think you will. He's very quiet; but so
 kind-hearted and thoughtful. Oh, Captain Lyster! how you startled me!"
 
-"Very sorry, Mrs. Schröder," drawled the Captain, creeping leisurely
+"Very sorry, Mrs. Schröder," drawled the Captain, creeping leisurely
 towards them; "wouldn't have put you out for the world; but this is
 scarcely fair, you know; two ladies monopolising each other when we're
 dying to talk to them; and we're left to listen to that horrible
@@ -6439,10 +6417,10 @@ hirsute wretch who's thumping the piano."
 
 "Klavierspieler a horrible wretch! Did you hear that, Barbara? Well,
 Captain Lyster, I won't monopolise Mrs. Churchill any more, and you
-shall have a chat with her;" and Mrs. Schröder walked off, laughing.
-Barbara had been looking at Mr. Schröder, who was standing in the
+shall have a chat with her;" and Mrs. Schröder walked off, laughing.
+Barbara had been looking at Mr. Schröder, who was standing in the
 doorway talking with Frank Churchill; and had noticed his face fall as
-Lyster approached them. When Mrs. Schröder moved away, her husband
+Lyster approached them. When Mrs. Schröder moved away, her husband
 seemed relieved.
 
 Captain Lyster sat down by Barbara, and talked long, and for him
@@ -6451,7 +6429,7 @@ friends; and in a score of little delicate sentences he conveyed to
 her his appreciation of her conduct in marrying a man whom she loved,
 in spite of the opposition of her friends, his respect for her
 husband's character and talents, and his desire to serve them. Then he
-turned the conversation upon Mrs. Schröder; and Barbara noticed that
+turned the conversation upon Mrs. Schröder; and Barbara noticed that
 his manner changed; that he hesitated, and kept his eyes down, as he
 wondered whether she were happy; whether she loved he husband; whether
 it had really been her duty to obey her father's will, and not consult
@@ -6459,9 +6437,9 @@ her own inclinations, as people said had been the case. For the first
 time a light broke upon Barbara, and she knew Captain Lyster's story
 as plainly as if he had told it to her in so many words. Following his
 glance as he stopped speaking, she saw that it rested on Alice
-Schröder, to whom Mr. Beresford was now talking, bending over her
+Schröder, to whom Mr. Beresford was now talking, bending over her
 chair with great apparent devotion; and looking from them to Mr.
-Schröder, Barbara remarked that the gloom had returned to his face,
+Schröder, Barbara remarked that the gloom had returned to his face,
 while Frank Churchill himself looked somewhat annoyed.
 
 It was not without a very great deal of trouble that Mr. Pringle had
@@ -6483,7 +6461,7 @@ more money, and all sorts of things. That won't do, you know! He must
 be picked up and trotted out; and the man for that line of business is
 yours truly." In pursuance of which determination Mr. Pringle opened a
 system of attack on his friend, and in the first place insisted that
-they should go together to Mr. Schröder's reception. Even at the last,
+they should go together to Mr. Schröder's reception. Even at the last,
 when Prescott gave in his final consent, it was under strong protest.
 "I shall be dreary, old boy; and you'll be sorry you took me. You know
 I'm not very good company just now, George. I've not got over--"
@@ -6504,7 +6482,7 @@ by his friend, and gradually his spirits revived. After dinner
 they went to Mr. Pringle's chambers, and smoked and had some hot
 whisky-and-water, which, coming after the port-wine, had a very
 hilarious effect upon Mr. Pringle, who then wanted to "go out some
-where," and not to go to the Schröders at all; but Mr. Prescott
+where," and not to go to the Schröders at all; but Mr. Prescott
 overruling this, they dressed and went. Mr. Pringle--and especially
 Mr. Pringle after half a bottle of port-wine and a couple of tumblers
 of whisky-punch--was a trying person to go about with, and Prescott
@@ -6520,7 +6498,7 @@ enter the room with him.
 
 Once in the room, Mr. Pringle toned down visibly, and conducted
 himself like an ordinary mortal. He was very friendly with Alice
-Schröder, and expressed poignant regret at Mr. Townshend's sudden
+Schröder, and expressed poignant regret at Mr. Townshend's sudden
 indisposition (for that worthy gentleman declined to come upstairs
 after dinner; Beresford's mention of Pigott and Wells had been too
 much for him), though secretly Mr. Pringle was pleased at missing his
@@ -7172,7 +7150,7 @@ understand that her position was on the other side of the gabions and
 the fascines, the stone walls and the broad moat; that by no means was
 the key of the citadel to be considered as in her possession.
 
-When relations of this kind in one family begin to be _à tort et à
+When relations of this kind in one family begin to be _à tort et à
 travers_, there is no end to the horrible complications arising out of
 them. Mrs. Churchill attempted to initiate Barbara into the mysteries
 of housekeeping, and the art of successfully combating nefarious
@@ -7234,7 +7212,7 @@ by their iconoclastic tendencies; deliberately smashing up all those
 gods whom she had hitherto been accustomed to reverence, and erecting
 in their stead images inscribed with names unknown to her, or known
 but to be shuddered at as owned by Radicals or free-thinkers. They
-were men who outraged none of the social _convénances_ of life; about
+were men who outraged none of the social _convénances_ of life; about
 whose manner or behaviour no direct complaint could be made; and often
 she thought herself somewhat exacting when she would repeat to
 herself, as she would--oh, how often!--that they were not gentlemen:
@@ -7325,7 +7303,7 @@ Frank looked uneasily across at his wife, but said nothing.
 
 "What shall we talk about, Mrs. Churchill?" said Mr. Dunster, with an
 evil twinkle of his blue eyes. "Shall it be the last ball in the
-Belgravia, or the new _jupe_; how Mario sang in the _Prophète_, or
+Belgravia, or the new _jupe_; how Mario sang in the _Prophète_, or
 whether bonnets will be worn on or off the head?"
 
 Churchill frowned at this remark, but his brow cleared as Barbara said
@@ -7460,7 +7438,7 @@ candidate's name, "Who is he? what can he do? what has he done?"
 questions which, unless satisfactorily answered, caused the immediate
 pilling of the pretender to association with the Flybynights.
 
-A few weeks after the Schröders' reception, Beresford and Simnel, who
+A few weeks after the Schröders' reception, Beresford and Simnel, who
 had been dining together, strolled into the club soon after midnight.
 Beresford was a member; Simnel came as his guest; the latter would
 have been safe of election, as his tact and shrewdness were very
@@ -7576,7 +7554,7 @@ was such a man for "bringing people together" as Dr. Prater. The
 manager of the Italian Opera (Dr. Prater's name was to all the
 sick-certificates for singers) would be seated next to a judge, who
 would have a leading member of the Jockey Club on his other hand, and
-a bishop for his _vis-à-vis_. Next the bishop would be a cotton-lord,
+a bishop for his _vis-à-vis_. Next the bishop would be a cotton-lord,
 next to him the artist of a comic periodical, and next to him a rising
 member of the Opposition, with an Indian colonel and an American
 comedian, here on a starring engagement, in juxtaposition. The dinner
@@ -7642,7 +7620,7 @@ sneered at his _charlatanerie_ of manner, allowed that he was
 thoroughly well versed in his subject. He was very fond of young men's
 society; and, with all his engagements, always found time to dine
 occasionally with the Guards at Windsor, with a City Company or two,
-or with a snug set _en petit comité_ in Temple chambers, and to visit
+or with a snug set _en petit comité_ in Temple chambers, and to visit
 the behind-scenes of two or three theatres, the receptions of certain
 great ladies, and occasionally the meetings of the Flybynights Club.
 To the latter he always came in a special suit of clothes on account
@@ -7662,10 +7640,10 @@ that?"
 
 "A few weeks since, just before I left town;--I've been away, and Dr.
 Seaton has kindly attended to my practice;--we met at the house of our
-charming friend Mrs. Schröder; but I could not catch your eye. You
+charming friend Mrs. Schröder; but I could not catch your eye. You
 were too well engaged; there was, as somebody--I don't know who, but
 somebody that every one knows--has said, there was metal more
-attractive. Ha! ha! A charming woman, Mrs. Schröder! a very charming
+attractive. Ha! ha! A charming woman, Mrs. Schröder! a very charming
 woman!"
 
 "Very charming," echoed Mr. Beresford shortly, not particularly caring
@@ -7696,7 +7674,7 @@ kind. By the way, doctor, how's Kitty Vavasour's cough?"
 The doctor's eyes twinkled as he replied, "Oh, much better--very much
 better. Horrible draught down that first entrance, my dear sir, as she
 perhaps told--I mean, as you probably know. Dreadful draught! enough
-to kill half the _coryphées_ in London. I've spoken to Grabb about it,
+to kill half the _coryphées_ in London. I've spoken to Grabb about it,
 but he won't do any thing; and when I hinted at the drapery, asked
 me if I thought he was going to let his ballet-girls dance in
 bathing-gowns. Very rude man, Grabb."
@@ -7706,11 +7684,11 @@ cutting in--"in Saxe-Coburg Square, I mean--very good, wasn't it? I
 suppose it was the lady's taste; but when they get hold of a woman
 with any notion of arrangement and effect, these _parvenu_ fellows
 from the City certainly don't grudge the money for their fun. And in
-the way the Schröders are living, the establishment must cost a pretty
+the way the Schröders are living, the establishment must cost a pretty
 sum, I should imagine."
 
 "A pretty sum indeed, my dear sir," said the doctor. "However, I
-understand on all sides that Mr. Schröder can perfectly afford it. I
+understand on all sides that Mr. Schröder can perfectly afford it. I
 hear from those who ought to know" (a great phrase of Dr. Prater's,
 this) "that his income is princely!" And then the doctor looked at the
 other two and repeated "princely!" and smacked his lips as though the
@@ -7726,7 +7704,7 @@ given up pulling out their teeth, worse luck! And that neat little
 instrument, 'Victoria, by the grace,' is as open to Jews as
 Christians. I always thought there was something wrong in that."
 
-"This Schröder is a tremendously lucky fellow, by Jove!" said
+"This Schröder is a tremendously lucky fellow, by Jove!" said
 Beresford. "He's got a very pretty wife and an enormous fortune; and
 though he's not young, to judge from all appearances, has a
 constitution of iron, and will live for years to enjoy his good
@@ -7739,12 +7717,12 @@ oracular.
 
 Simnel glanced up at him at once from under his heavy eyebrows; but
 Beresford only said, "Why, doctor, you're not going to try and make me
-believe any envious disparagement of Schröder's riches?"
+believe any envious disparagement of Schröder's riches?"
 
 "Not for the world, my dear sir; not for the world! Such rumours have
 been spread! but, as you say, only among the envious and jealous, who
 would whisper-away Coutts's credit, and decline to intrust their
-miserable balance to Barings'! No; my doubts as to Schröder relate to
+miserable balance to Barings'! No; my doubts as to Schröder relate to
 another matter."
 
 "His health?" said Simnel, who had kept his eyes on the solemn little
@@ -7761,7 +7739,7 @@ ostrich. I don't know a man of his age to whom, to look at, you'd give
 a longer life."
 
 "Right, my dear sir," replied the doctor, "right enough from a
-non-professional view. But Mr. Schröder, like the gentleman of whom I
+non-professional view. But Mr. Schröder, like the gentleman of whom I
 have heard, but whose name I can't call to mind, has that within which
 passeth show. I _know_ the exact state of his condition."
 
@@ -7778,7 +7756,7 @@ and charlatans--quacks and charlatans! But with gentlemen like
 yourselves, men of the world, I don't mind occasionally revealing a
 few of the secrets of the--the--what d'ye call 'em?--prison-house. The
 fact is--" and the doctor lowered his voice and looked additionally
-solemn,--"that Mr. Schröder's life hangs by a thread."
+solemn,--"that Mr. Schröder's life hangs by a thread."
 
 Both his listeners started, and Mr. Simnel from between his set teeth
 said, "The devil!"
@@ -7846,8 +7824,8 @@ game looks like yours."
 stopping still in the streets, and the policeman at the corner is
 staring at you in unmitigated wonder. Mean!" he repeated, as they
 walked on; "well, it's not a very difficult matter to explain. You
-hear that Schröder has heart-disease--that at any moment he may die.
-You always had a partiality for Mrs. Schröder, I believe; and if there
+hear that Schröder has heart-disease--that at any moment he may die.
+You always had a partiality for Mrs. Schröder, I believe; and if there
 be any truth in what I gather from yourself and others, you stand very
 well with her."
 
@@ -7899,7 +7877,7 @@ table, over which were suspended three swinging moderator-lamps, with
 white-china shades and crimson-silk fringe; a sofa and numerous
 easy-chairs, all in crimson velvet and walnut-wood; rich spoils of
 Bohemian glass, standing in odd corners on quaint oak cabinets; two
-Sèvres china dogs, in begging attitude, mounting guard on either end
+Sèvres china dogs, in begging attitude, mounting guard on either end
 of the mantelshelf; and a flying female figure suspended across the
 looking-glass;--such were among the incongruous contents of the room.
 On the table, two yellow-paper covered French novels, a Horace,
@@ -7908,7 +7886,7 @@ looking-glass, cards for evening-parties and dinners were jostled by
 tickets soliciting vote and interest in approaching elections of
 charitable societies, remindings of gatherings of learned bodies, and
 small bills for books or boots. It was Mr. Simnel's pleasure to keep
-up this _mélange_; his time was generally fully occupied; he chose
+up this _mélange_; his time was generally fully occupied; he chose
 people to consider that he had not a moment to himself; he wished
 those who called on him on business to see the invitations, in order
 that they might judge therefrom of his position in society; and he
@@ -7960,7 +7938,7 @@ to be doubted whether he knew to whom he was telegraphing, as his
 thoughts were entirely fixed on his mission. However, he wore a
 pleasant smile on his face, and that was quite enough: grinning, like
 charity, covers a multitude of sins; and if you only smile and hold
-your tongue, you can pass through life with an _éclat_ which excellent
+your tongue, you can pass through life with an _éclat_ which excellent
 eloquence, combined with a serious face, would fail to give. So Mr.
 Simnel went smiling along at the easiest amble until he got clear of
 the Row and the town, and then he gave the bay his head, and never
@@ -8235,7 +8213,7 @@ So far at first. Then came the recollection of his straitened
 position, the reflection that Miss Townshend was an heiress, and the
 determination to go in seriously for a proposal--a determination which
 was very short-lived, owing to the discovery of the lady's engagement
-to Gustav Schröder. From the time of her marriage, Mrs. Schröder was
+to Gustav Schröder. From the time of her marriage, Mrs. Schröder was
 by Beresford mentally relegated to a corps which included several
 married ladies of his acquaintance; for the most part young and pretty
 women, whose husbands were either elderly, or immersed in business,
@@ -8265,7 +8243,7 @@ Parisian license, and would probably be considered severely correct by
 that circle of upper Bohemians, of whose lives the younger Dumas has
 constituted himself the chronicler.
 
-Having, then, mentally appointed Mrs. Schröder a member of this
+Having, then, mentally appointed Mrs. Schröder a member of this
 society, Mr. Beresford took upon himself the office of her cavalier,
 and behaved to her in due form. When they were in company together, he
 sedulously kept his eyes upon her, strove to anticipate her wishes,
@@ -8274,22 +8252,22 @@ dropped his voice when he spoke to her, even though it were about the
 merest trifle; and he invariably took notice of the arrangements of
 her dress, hair, and appearance in general, and made suggestions
 which, being in excellent taste, were generally approved and carried
-out. Then he found out Mrs. Schröder's romantic side, a little bit of
+out. Then he found out Mrs. Schröder's romantic side, a little bit of
 nineteenth-century sentiment, dashed with drawing-room cynicism, which
 found its exponent in Mr. Owen Meredith's weaker verses; and there
 they found plenty of quotations about not being understood, and the
 "little look across the crowd," and "what is not, might have been,"
 and other choice little sentiments, which did not tend to elevate Mr.
-Gustav Schröder, then hard at work in the City, in his wife's good
+Gustav Schröder, then hard at work in the City, in his wife's good
 opinion. Indeed, being a very weak little woman, with a parasitical
 tendency to cling for support to something, and being without that
 something, which she had hitherto found in Barbara, free from the
 dread which her father's presence always imposed upon her, and having
-no companion in her husband, Mrs. Schröder began to look forward with
+no companion in her husband, Mrs. Schröder began to look forward with
 more and more eagerness to her opportunities of meeting Charles
 Beresford, to take greater and greater delight in his attentions and
 his conversation, and to substitute a growing repugnance for her
-hitherto passive endurance of Mr. Schröder. Charles Beresford was
+hitherto passive endurance of Mr. Schröder. Charles Beresford was
 gradually coming to occupy the principal position in her thoughts, and
 this that gentleman perceived with mingled feelings of gratified
 vanity and annoyance. "She's going a little too fast!" he had said to
@@ -8298,7 +8276,7 @@ mile too palpable! People will talk, and I'm not in a position to
 stand any public scandal; and as for bolting, or any thing of that
 sort, by Jove, it would be sheer ruin and nothing less." In this frame
 of mind, it had more than once occurred to Mr. Beresford to speak to
-Mrs. Schröder, and caution her as to her bearing towards him; but
+Mrs. Schröder, and caution her as to her bearing towards him; but
 fortunately for him, so thoroughly void of offence had been all their
 relations hitherto, that he scarcely dared to hint at what he intended
 to convey, without risking the accusation of imputing evil by his very
@@ -8357,7 +8335,7 @@ over head and ears in debt, pressed by Jews, horribly impecunious,
 and--"
 
 "Leave me alone, Simnel, can't you? I know all this; and as you must
-be perfectly certain, I've turned this Schröder affair over in my mind
+be perfectly certain, I've turned this Schröder affair over in my mind
 a hundred times already."
 
 "And what have you decided?"
@@ -8490,14 +8468,14 @@ himself into his new character with spirit, and made a decided hit in
 it. All the raillery and nonsense, all the smiles and laughter, had
 vanished. Owen Meredith had been exchanged for Lord Byron; and Mr.
 Beresford as a nineteenth-century London-made Giaour was doing
-terrible execution to that feeble little bit of Mrs. Schröder's
+terrible execution to that feeble little bit of Mrs. Schröder's
 anatomy which she called her heart. There was no one to say a kind
 word, to give proper advice, to the poor little woman in her need.
 Barbara was absolutely lost to her: she had been two or three times to
 Great Adullam Street, and Barbara had returned the call; but there was
 evident restraint on both sides. The outside show of friendship
 remained, but there was no animating spirit; none such, at least, as
-to call for the kind of confidence which Alice Schröder would gladly
+to call for the kind of confidence which Alice Schröder would gladly
 have made, had she received the slightest invitation. But Barbara was
 not the Barbara of old days: she looked worn and anxious, was
 constantly preoccupied, and answered at random; she confined herself,
@@ -8528,7 +8506,7 @@ wife, when he had time to think about her; but he had been brought up
 in business, and that absorbed his whole attention by day; while
 giving or going to parties, in which he could spend the result of what
 he had attained by business, occupied him at night. But he had the
-highest opinion of Mrs. Schröder's conduct, which he imagined was on a
+highest opinion of Mrs. Schröder's conduct, which he imagined was on a
 par with every thing else in the establishment--real and genuine; and
 he paid her bills, and presented her with cheques, with lavish
 generosity. Only he was not exactly the man on whose bosom a wife
@@ -8562,17 +8540,17 @@ confidence, and to her he would go at once.
 
 
 CHAPTER XXIV.
-BARBARA'S FIRST LESSON IN THE MANÈGE.
+BARBARA'S FIRST LESSON IN THE MANÈGE.
 
 
 For some few months after the events just described, the lives of
 those who form the characters of this little drama passed evenly on
 without the occurrence of any circumstance worthy of special record on
 the part of their historian. Mr. Beresford, implicitly following Mr.
-Simnel's advice, proceeded to lay siege to Mrs. Schröder in the manner
+Simnel's advice, proceeded to lay siege to Mrs. Schröder in the manner
 agreed upon, and found his advances received very much after the
 fashion predicted by his astute friend. In all child-like simplicity
-Mrs. Schröder firmly believed in the baneful influence which she had
+Mrs. Schröder firmly believed in the baneful influence which she had
 unconsciously exercised over her admirer, and strove to make him
 amends by a charitable and sentimental pity. She could perfectly
 appreciate all his feelings; for was not she herself misunderstood?
@@ -8584,7 +8562,7 @@ herself up to solitary romance. On the contrary, she went out a great
 deal into society, and had frequent receptions at home; Beresford
 being her constant but always unobtrusive companion. It is difficult
 to say what motive about this time prompted a considerable change in
-Mr. Schröder's manner towards his wife; but some such change
+Mr. Schröder's manner towards his wife; but some such change
 undoubtedly took place. It may possibly have been that the
 insufficiency of money as a source of happiness may have dawned upon
 him, steeped as he was to his very lips in constantly-increasing
@@ -8593,14 +8571,14 @@ was expected to lavish something more than generosity on the young
 girl whom he had made the head of his house, and who, as he thought,
 conducted herself with so much propriety. This new feeling may have
 had its germ one night when they were sitting in their grand-tier box
-at the Italian Opera, during the performance of _Der Freischütz_; and
-as the old familiar strains rang through the house, Gustav Schröder's
+at the Italian Opera, during the performance of _Der Freischütz_; and
+as the old familiar strains rang through the house, Gustav Schröder's
 memory travelled back for five-and-thirty years, and he saw himself a
 lad of seventeen, seated in the pit of a little German theatre by the
 side of a plump little girl, who wore a silver arrow through the great
 knot of her flaxen hair, and down whose cheeks tears were rolling as
 she listened to the recital of Agatha's woes. He had loved that plump
-little Kätchen, loved her with a boy's pure and ardent passion; and
+little Kätchen, loved her with a boy's pure and ardent passion; and
 when sent to his uncle's counting-house at Frankfort, they had parted
 with bitter tears, and with the exchange of very cheap and worthless
 love-tokens. He wondered what had become of that five-groschen piece
@@ -8610,24 +8588,24 @@ up and saw his pretty, elegant little wife, whom every one admired and
 praised; and it flashed upon him that he had never tried to break
 through the outer crust of staid formality with which business and the
 world had covered him; and he determined to try to love and be loved
-once more. And so Mrs. Schröder, beginning to be dreadfully frightened
+once more. And so Mrs. Schröder, beginning to be dreadfully frightened
 at the incantation scene, was astonished to find her hand gently taken
 in her husband's, and on looking up to find his eyes fixed on hers.
-From that time out Gustav Schröder was a changed man; he took frequent
+From that time out Gustav Schröder was a changed man; he took frequent
 holidays from business; he strove in every way to let his wife see how
 anxious he was for her happiness; and she saw it, and was to a certain
 extent touched by his conduct. It needed all Mr. Beresford's
 sophistry, all his attention and quotation, the employment of all the
 art in which he had been indoctrinated by his friend Simnel, to make
-head against the influence which Gustav Schröder's quiet watchfulness
+head against the influence which Gustav Schröder's quiet watchfulness
 and fatherly affection were attaining; for the affection was, after
-all, more fatherly than conjugal in its display. Mr. Schröder was far
+all, more fatherly than conjugal in its display. Mr. Schröder was far
 too much a man of the world to affect to ignore his age or the result
 of his life-habits; and no one was better pleased than he to see his
 wife happy among younger and livelier companions.
 
 A happy influence properly exercised at this time would have been
-immediately beneficial to Alice Schröder, and have brought matters
+immediately beneficial to Alice Schröder, and have brought matters
 back into the right course. For instance, ten minutes' walk with
 Barbara Churchill would have settled the question; for Barbara was to
 Alice that one grand idol whom we all of us (although we change them
@@ -8638,7 +8616,7 @@ friend's high spirit would do, if pressed to it; there was something
 romantic in it, savouring of the legends of the high dames of old, who
 gave themselves to poets after scorning kings; and the whole process
 entirely agreed with certain of the _dicta_ of Mr. Owen Meredith, who,
-as has been explained, was poet-laureate at the Schröder court. And
+as has been explained, was poet-laureate at the Schröder court. And
 Alice called on Barbara, and petted her and praised her, and in her
 silly little way did every thing possible to prevent the smallest
 _rapprochement_ between them. And then Alice went away, and cried in
@@ -8897,7 +8875,7 @@ again?"
 "You had better not, Frank," said she, moving towards the door; "you
 don't know whom you have to deal with." And she swept out of the room.
 
-And this was Barbara's first lesson in the _manège_.
+And this was Barbara's first lesson in the _manège_.
 
 
 
@@ -8927,7 +8905,7 @@ it was very hot weather; and the session and the season were
 simultaneously doomed. However, the wives and daughters of the members
 were determined to die hard; there would be at least a fortnight
 before the prorogation of Parliament, and during that fortnight
-dinners, balls, fêtes, and opera-visitings were carried on with
+dinners, balls, fêtes, and opera-visitings were carried on with
 redoubled activity. To a good many, condemned to autumnal pinchings
 and scrapings in a dull country-house, it was the last taste of
 pleasure until next spring.
@@ -9054,14 +9032,14 @@ looks tolerably healthy. What's it about, James?"
 
 "Read for yourself;" and Mr. Prescott tossed the letter over to him.
 
-"Mrs. Schröder--garden fête--Uplands," said Pringle, reading. "Oh, ah!
+"Mrs. Schröder--garden fête--Uplands," said Pringle, reading. "Oh, ah!
 I knew all about that, but I didn't mention it, because I wasn't sure
 that you'd be asked; and as a certing persing is going, you'd have
 been as mad as a hatter at losing the chance of meeting her."
 
 "What's Uplands?" asked Prescott.
 
-"Uplands is no end of a jolly place which Schröder has taken for the
+"Uplands is no end of a jolly place which Schröder has taken for the
 summer and autumn. He has got some tremendous operation in the mines,
 or the funds, or some of those things that those City fellows get so
 brutally rich with; and he must be in town two or three times a week.
@@ -9072,8 +9050,8 @@ no end, with conservatories, and big grounds, and a lake, and all
 sorts of fun. Belonged to another City buffer, who's over-speculated
 himself and gone to Boulogne. That _is_ a comfort; they do go to smash
 sometimes; but even then they've generally settled as much as the
-Chief Commissioner's income on their wives. Schröder heard of this;
-pounced upon it at once; and this is to be Mrs. Schröder's first
+Chief Commissioner's income on their wives. Schröder heard of this;
+pounced upon it at once; and this is to be Mrs. Schröder's first
 garden-party."
 
 "I'm very glad I'm asked, if--"
@@ -9154,15 +9132,15 @@ the lawyers are at it now, I believe."
 
 "Isn't this our man--Beresford?"
 
-"Of course it is, and there's Mr. Schröder close by him. We'll go up
+"Of course it is, and there's Mr. Schröder close by him. We'll go up
 and make our salaams."
 
 So the young men wound through the crowd, and were very cordially
-received by Mrs. Schröder, and indeed by Mr. Beresford. For the
+received by Mrs. Schröder, and indeed by Mr. Beresford. For the
 Commissioner knew his popularity in the Office and was pleased at it,
 and was always glad to meet decent-looking men belonging to it in
 society. "It improved the tone of the confounded place," he used to
-say. Talking to Mrs. Schröder was Mr. Sergeant Shivers, one of the
+say. Talking to Mrs. Schröder was Mr. Sergeant Shivers, one of the
 ornaments of the Old-Bailey bar; a tremendously eloquent man in the
 florid and ornate style, with a power of cross-examination calculated
 to turn a witness inside out, and a power of address able to frighten
@@ -9170,7 +9148,7 @@ the jury into fits; but who scorned all these advantages, and was
 never so happy as when talking of and to great people. He was on his
 favourite topic when Prescott and Pringle arrived.
 
-"Ah, my dear Mrs. Schröder," he was saying, "isn't it sad? The duchess
+"Ah, my dear Mrs. Schröder," he was saying, "isn't it sad? The duchess
 herself sent for me, and said, 'Now, Mr. Sergeant, speak to him
 yourself. You have experience of life; above all, you have experience
 of our order. Tell Philip what will be the result of this marriage
@@ -9198,8 +9176,8 @@ not, why not? There's no fair young form to hang upon me; man delights
 me not nor woman either; so I'll see if there's any moselle-cup
 handy."
 
-Among those present at the Uplands _fête_ were Frank Churchill and
-Barbara. Alice Schröder had made a great point of their coming; and
+Among those present at the Uplands _fête_ were Frank Churchill and
+Barbara. Alice Schröder had made a great point of their coming; and
 though at first Barbara refused, yet her husband so strongly seconded
 the invitation, that she at length gave way and consented. It was a
 trying time for Barbara: she knew she would there be compelled to meet
@@ -9217,7 +9195,7 @@ had an inward dread that the sight of him would arouse Frank's wrath
 and lead to mischief. However, they came. Barbara was very charmingly
 dressed; and if her face were a little pale and her expression
 somewhat anxious, her eye was as bright and her bearing as proud as
-ever. Alice Schröder received her in the warmest manner, kissed her
+ever. Alice Schröder received her in the warmest manner, kissed her
 affectionately, and immediately afterwards without the slightest
 intention planted a dagger in her breast, by expressing delight at
 "seeing her among her old friends again." "These old friends"--_i.e_.
@@ -9240,7 +9218,7 @@ So that Barbara was happier than she had been for some time; and her
 happiness was certainly not decreased by seeing that the cloud had
 left Frank's brow, and that he looked in every way his former self.
 
-"Now, Barbara," said Alice Schröder, approaching them, "we are getting
+"Now, Barbara," said Alice Schröder, approaching them, "we are getting
 up two new croquet sets, and want members for each. You'll play, of
 course? I recollect how you used to send me spinning at Bissett--oh,
 by the way, have you heard? poor dear Sir Marmaduke, so ill at Pau, or
@@ -9257,7 +9235,7 @@ Captain Lyster bowed, shook hands, and expressed his delight. Frank
 Churchill shook hands with Lyster; but as he did so, a flush passed
 over his face.
 
-"Now, then, that set is full," said Mrs. Schröder; "who is the captain
+"Now, then, that set is full," said Mrs. Schröder; "who is the captain
 of the other set, playing at the other ground? oh, you, Mr. Pringle!
 Will you take Mr. Churchill away with you; you only want one, I
 think?"
@@ -9292,30 +9270,30 @@ Captain strolled away.
 
 Then, as they walked, Fred Lyster talked long and earnestly. He told
 Barbara that he addressed her as one who, he knew, took the deepest
-interest in Alice Schröder's welfare; indeed, as one who had been as
+interest in Alice Schröder's welfare; indeed, as one who had been as
 her sister in times past. He touched lightly on the disparity in age
 between Alice and her husband, and upon the difference in all their
 habits, tastes, and opinions; he said that she was thus doubtless
 driven to her own resources for amusement, and that her utter
 simplicity and childishness made her the easy prey of designing
 people. Then, with the utmost delicacy, he went on to point out that
-for some time Beresford's attentions to Mrs. Schröder had been most
+for some time Beresford's attentions to Mrs. Schröder had been most
 marked; that his constant presence at their house, or in attendance on
 her when she went out, had attracted attention, and that at length it
 had become common club-gossip. Only on the previous night he had heard
 that it had been publicly discussed in the smoke-room of the Minerva;
 that an old gentleman, an old friend of the family, had announced his
-intention of speaking to Mr. Schröder about it. What was to be done?
+intention of speaking to Mr. Schröder about it. What was to be done?
 He (Lyster), deeply pained at it all, had no authority, no influence,
 no right, to mix himself with the matter. Would not Mrs. Churchill, in
-pity for her friend, talk seriously with Mrs. Schröder about it? She
-was all-potential. Mrs. Schröder believed implicitly in her, and would
+pity for her friend, talk seriously with Mrs. Schröder about it? She
+was all-potential. Mrs. Schröder believed implicitly in her, and would
 undoubtedly follow her advice. Would not Mrs. Churchill do this, for
 pity's sake?
 
 Barbara was very much astonished and very much shocked. She had always
 known Alice to be weak and vain and silly; she knew that her marriage
-with Mr. Schröder had been one made solely at her father's
+with Mr. Schröder had been one made solely at her father's
 instigation; but having lived entirely out of the set for the last few
 months, she had no idea of the intimacy with Mr. Beresford, whose
 acquaintance she considered was by no means desirable. She was
@@ -9449,7 +9427,7 @@ connected in his mind with rebukes known as "carpetings." "I'll see
 about it, sir."
 
 "Thank you, Mr. Pringle. How are all your people? bow is Mrs.
-Schröder? who is your cousin, I think."
+Schröder? who is your cousin, I think."
 
 "Yes, my cousin. She's all right; but I'm sorry to say my uncle Mr.
 Townshend is very ill; so ill that he leaves town for the Continent
@@ -9458,7 +9436,7 @@ to-night, and is likely to be away some time."
 "Dear me! Pm very sorry to hear that."
 
 "Fact, indeed, sir! I was thinking, sir," said Mr. Pringle, who never
-missed a chance, "that as Mrs. Schröder may perhaps be rather dull
+missed a chance, "that as Mrs. Schröder may perhaps be rather dull
 to-morrow after her father's gone, I might perhaps have a day's leave
 of absence to be with her."
 
@@ -9560,7 +9538,7 @@ pledge my official reputation that the story is worth hearing. I think
 when I mention the names of Pigott and Wells--"
 
 Down at last--sunk down cowering in his chair, just as at the
-Schröders' dinner, when he heard those dreadful names.
+Schröders' dinner, when he heard those dreadful names.
 
 "Ah, I thought you would remember them. Well, Pigott and Wells were
 wool-merchants of old standing in Combcardingham. Pigott had long been
@@ -9685,14 +9663,14 @@ that instead of remaining in his South-Audley-Street lodgings, he
 could go out and take rooms at a beautiful little inn in the village
 of Whittington, where there was a glorious cook, a capital cellar,
 beautiful air, splendid prospect, and above all, which was twenty
-minutes' canter from the Uplands, Schröder's summer place. To this
+minutes' canter from the Uplands, Schröder's summer place. To this
 plan Mr. Beresford consented; and after asking for a further loan of
 fifty, and getting five-and-twenty, from Simnel, Beresford and his
 mare Gulnare were domesticated at the Holly Bush, and he prepared to
 make play.
 
 But somehow the state of affairs did not please Mr. Simnel. One day,
-when he and Mr. and Mrs. Schröder were Beresford's guests, he seemed
+when he and Mr. and Mrs. Schröder were Beresford's guests, he seemed
 specially annoyed; and on the next occasion of his friend's visiting
 the office, he took the opportunity of speaking to him.
 
@@ -9751,11 +9729,11 @@ Churchill that is now?"
 
 "Perfectly! But _she_ would not be likely to object to a flirtation."
 
-"Not as mademoiselle, but as madame she has rangéed herself, and I
+"Not as mademoiselle, but as madame she has rangéed herself, and I
 believe her husband is a straight-laced party. She was up at Uplands
 for a couple of days, and rather snubbed me when I presented myself
 there in my fraternal character. I've been putting things together in
-my mind, and I begin to think that Mrs. Schröder's coldness dated from
+my mind, and I begin to think that Mrs. Schröder's coldness dated from
 Mrs. Churchill's visit."
 
 "Likely enough. I daresay Mrs. Churchill goes in tremendously now for
@@ -9767,9 +9745,9 @@ genteelly-poor turtles, in some dovecot near Gray's Inn."
 
 "That man Lyster's been a good deal to the house lately, too. I always
 hated that fellow, and I know he hates me; he looks at me sometimes as
-though he could eat me. Schröder seems to have taken a fancy to him;
+though he could eat me. Schröder seems to have taken a fancy to him;
 and I sometimes half fancy that he has a kind of spoony attachment to
-Mrs. Schröder--if you recollect, I told you I thought he was after her
+Mrs. Schröder--if you recollect, I told you I thought he was after her
 when we were all down at Bissett--though I don't think very much of
 that. I'll tell you what it is, Simnel," continued Mr. Beresford, in a
 burst of confidence, straggling up into a sitting position on the
@@ -9819,12 +9797,12 @@ specially kind, on the contrary, in all you say of them. This Captain
 Lyster, for instance, I should proclaim, if I were you, a thorough
 gentleman--a prolix chevalier of a type now seldom seen--a man
 evidently smothering an unhappy passion for--for--any body but Mrs.
-Schröder. Wouldn't the other one do? Mrs. Churchill, I mean."
+Schröder. Wouldn't the other one do? Mrs. Churchill, I mean."
 
 "Do! What do you mean? There used certainly to be a flirtation between
 them at one time, and--"
 
-"Quite enough. Only keep Mrs. Schröder from the notion that Lyster is
+"Quite enough. Only keep Mrs. Schröder from the notion that Lyster is
 spooning her; for that's enough at once to turn her silly little
 thoughts to him. Speak kindly of every one; and don't show the
 smallest signs of weariness, depression, or discouragement."
@@ -9845,7 +9823,7 @@ No, my young friend, never! You held a trump-card there, and you
 neglected to play it; and in my game there's no revoking. I must see
 Kitty, and look how the land lies. I think I've stalled Master Charley
 off for some little time; and it's no use bringing about an
-éclaircissement of the Schröder business; which Kitty would be safe to
+éclaircissement of the Schröder business; which Kitty would be safe to
 do as soon as she had any tangible proof. Then I should lose my eight
 hundred pounds in Charley Beresford's general and helpless smash.
 But I'd sooner drop them than miss my chance of Kitty. Slippery,
@@ -10268,7 +10246,7 @@ Dismissed temporarily, but by no means forgotten, by no means laid
 aside by either of them. Captain Lyster called the next day while
 Frank was at the office, eager to see whether Mrs. Churchill had
 repented of the task she had undertaken in counselling and warning
-Alice Schröder; and Barbara told her husband on his return of the
+Alice Schröder; and Barbara told her husband on his return of the
 visit she had had, and mentioned it with eyes which a desire not to
 look conscious rendered somewhat defiant, and with cheeks which
 flushed simply because it was the last thing they ought to have done.
@@ -10332,7 +10310,7 @@ smoking their cigars at the open windows in the hot summer evenings.
 She could scarcely fancy that there was a world where people dressed
 in full muslin, and pink-crape bonnets, or bewitching hats; where
 business was unknown, and work never heard of; where there were
-perpetual croquet-parties and picnics and horticultural fêtes; where
+perpetual croquet-parties and picnics and horticultural fêtes; where
 there were night-drives homeward in open carriages after Richmond
 dinners; and where the men talked of something else than when Brown
 was going to bring out his poems, or what a slating Smith's novel had
@@ -10686,7 +10664,7 @@ said she had not come in, at the same time handing him a letter. It
 was very brief; it merely said:
 
 "You have decided; and henceforth you and I never meet again. Mrs.
-Schröder, with whom I am staying, will send her maid for a box which I
+Schröder, with whom I am staying, will send her maid for a box which I
 have left ready packed. I hope you may be more happy with your
 correspondent, and in your return to your old life, than you have been
 with        B. C."
@@ -11129,11 +11107,11 @@ proceed by himself.
 
 "William," said Kate, "who's that lady riding with your master?"
 
-"Mrs. Schröder, miss; Saxe-Coburg Square. Mr. Schröder drives pair of
+"Mrs. Schröder, miss; Saxe-Coburg Square. Mr. Schröder drives pair of
 chestnuts, miss, in mail-pheayton, plain black harness. May have
 noticed 'em; often in the Park, miss."
 
-"Ah! No; I think not. Schröder,--Saxe-Coburg Square, you said?"
+"Ah! No; I think not. Schröder,--Saxe-Coburg Square, you said?"
 
 "Yes, miss. Beg pardon, miss," added the man, who had himself been
 formerly in Kate's service, and by whom, as by all of his fraternity,
@@ -11187,7 +11165,7 @@ AFTER THE STORM.
 
 As you sit in the bow-window of your comfortable lodging at your
 favourite watering-place during your annual autumn holiday, your
-breakfast finished and the _débris_ removed, the newspaper rustling
+breakfast finished and the _débris_ removed, the newspaper rustling
 idly on your knees, and the first and pleasantest pipe of the day
 between your lips, you look up and see the aspect of affairs in the
 little street below very much changed from its normal state. The
@@ -11471,7 +11449,7 @@ propose to go to her,--this woman, who has brought contempt on you--
 and not only on you, on me and all our name,--and sue to her to come
 back, and box her ears playfully, and tell her what a naughty girl she
 has been! Do you imagine that this affair is any longer a secret, that
-it has not been talked over already between Mrs. Schröder's maid and
+it has not been talked over already between Mrs. Schröder's maid and
 your servants, between your servants and the tradespeople? Don't you
 know that if your wife is absent from your house to-night, the doubt
 will become a certainty, and that to-morrow the whole neighbourhood
@@ -11537,7 +11515,7 @@ prettiest girl out since the Lexden's year." "What's become of the
 Lexden--didn't she get married or something?" asked another. "Oh,
 yes!" answered the first--"married a man who's a member here. I don't
 know him; but a cleverish fellow, I believe. No tin--regular case of
-spoons, they said it was." "Mistake that!" said the _fiancé_, whose
+spoons, they said it was." "Mistake that!" said the _fiancé_, whose
 future father-in-law was a wealthy brewer; "spoons is all very well,
 but it wants something to back it." "Ah, but it's not every one
 that has your luck," said old Tommy Orme, who just then joined the
@@ -11698,7 +11676,7 @@ CHAPTER XXXI.
 THE PAPER BULLET.
 
 
-Like the man and woman in the toy weather-house, Mr. Schröder's two
+Like the man and woman in the toy weather-house, Mr. Schröder's two
 houses never were "to the fore" at the same time. When the one was
 lighted, the other was gloomy; when the one was tenanted, the other
 was empty; when the one was decorated, the other was comfortless. As
@@ -11718,18 +11696,18 @@ asparagus to be something else beside stalk and stick,--then the glory
 of the Saxe-Coburg-Square establishment showed strong symptoms of
 waning. The usual amount of solemn dinner-party had been gone through;
 every body necessary had been asked to balls, music, and
-_conversazioni_; Mrs. Schröder's taste and Mr. Schröder's wealth had
+_conversazioni_; Mrs. Schröder's taste and Mr. Schröder's wealth had
 been exhibited constantly at the Opera and at some of the most
 fashionable gatherings in London; and one, if not both, of them longed
 for a little quiet. This resulted in the renting of Uplands, when
 blank misery fell upon the establishment in Saxe-Coburg Square. All
 the ornaments and nicknacks were removed and put away; the chandeliers
 were shrouded in big holland bags; the shutters were put up; and the
-spurious Schröder ancestors scowled dimly from the wall over a great
+spurious Schröder ancestors scowled dimly from the wall over a great
 desert of dining-table, no longer shining with snowy damask or
 sparkling silver and glass. The staff of servants,--the French cook
 and the Italian confectioner; the ponderous butler, so frequently
-mistaken by Mrs. Schröder's West-end friends for a City magnate; the
+mistaken by Mrs. Schröder's West-end friends for a City magnate; the
 solemn footman, large-whiskered, large-calved, ambrosial, and most
 offensive; the lady's-maid and the buttons,--all, down to the
 kitchen-maid, who lived in a perpetual state of grease and dripping,
@@ -11751,12 +11729,12 @@ picturesquely fringed the lawn and framed the distance, now gaunt and
 dismal, swayed mournfully to and fro, drearily rattling their stripped
 limbs,--then a general inclination to return back to the comfort of
 London began to be manifested by all the inhabitants of Uplands. It
-was all very pleasant when Mr. Schröder had spun his chestnuts up the
+was all very pleasant when Mr. Schröder had spun his chestnuts up the
 leafy lanes, or over the breezy hills, in the summer; but it was a
 very different thing when he had to come the same road from town in a
 close carriage, with the rain pattering against the windows, and with
 no gas for the last three miles of the journey. It was dull work for
-Mrs. Schröder and whatever female companion she might happen to have,
+Mrs. Schröder and whatever female companion she might happen to have,
 with nothing to do but yawn over novels, or listlessly thrum the
 piano, or watch the gardeners filling their high barrows with dead
 leaves and unceasingly sweeping the lawns and paths. She could have
@@ -11773,12 +11751,12 @@ Square leaving Uplands to the care of the Scotch gardener, who removed
 his wife and family up from one of the lodges, and encamped in the
 kitchen and adjacent rooms.
 
-Mrs. Schröder was by no means ill-pleased at the return to town. The
+Mrs. Schröder was by no means ill-pleased at the return to town. The
 moving gave her no trouble; she had merely to walk into her rooms and
 find every thing arranged for her; and she was in hopes that a
 salutary change would be effected in at least one arrangement which
 was beginning to worry her. The truth is, that during the last week of
-their stay at Uplands it had begun to dawn upon Mrs. Schröder that
+their stay at Uplands it had begun to dawn upon Mrs. Schröder that
 Charles Beresford's attentions were not what they should be. She had
 more than once endeavoured to think out the subject; but her
 intellects were none of the brightest, and she got frightened, and
@@ -11790,16 +11768,16 @@ on her entirely of her own accord. She had noticed that her husband
 (whose attentions to her increased day by day from the time when his
 heart seemed to soften so suddenly and so strangely towards her)
 seemed to regard the presence of the Commissioner with obvious
-impatience. Mr. Schröder never, indeed, said any thing to his wife on
+impatience. Mr. Schröder never, indeed, said any thing to his wife on
 the subject; but he evidently chafed when Beresford was in the house:
-and if Mrs. Schröder and Beresford were at all thrown together apart
-from the general company, they were sure to see Mr. Schröder's eyes
+and if Mrs. Schröder and Beresford were at all thrown together apart
+from the general company, they were sure to see Mr. Schröder's eyes
 fixed upon them. Others of her friends had not been so reticent.
 Captain Lyster had hinted once or twice, what Barbara Churchill had
 several times roundly spoken out--that Beresford was a _vaurien_,
 whose attentions were compromising to any married woman; and that if
 he had the smallest spark of gentlemanly feeling in him, he would
-desist from paying them. So Mrs. Schröder, who was nothing but a very
+desist from paying them. So Mrs. Schröder, who was nothing but a very
 silly weak little woman (there are few women who are really bad, even
 among those who have erred: the Messalinas and the Lady Macbeths are
 very exceptional cases), and who really had a sincere affection for
@@ -11813,7 +11791,7 @@ been running, and felt horribly incensed with Mr. Beresford for his
 part in the affair.
 
 They had been back for some days in Saxe-Coburg Square, and Alice
-Schröder was nestling in her easy-chair after luncheon, wondering when
+Schröder was nestling in her easy-chair after luncheon, wondering when
 the opportunity would occur in which she could plainly point out to
 Mr. Beresford that he must altogether alter his conduct for the
 future, when Mrs. Churchill was announced, and Barbara entered the
@@ -11840,13 +11818,13 @@ gravely. "I am here alone."
 "You don't understand me yet, Alice. I have left my husband."
 
 "Left your husband! oh, Barbara, how dreadful! how could you!" and
-Alice Schröder's face exhibited such signs of unmistakable terror,
+Alice Schröder's face exhibited such signs of unmistakable terror,
 that for the first time the magnitude of the step she had taken, and
 the apparent impossibility of its recall, seemed to flash upon
 Barbara. A rush of tears blinded her eyes; and she held out her hands
 appealingly, as she said, "You--you don't shrink from me, Alice?"
 
-Astonishment, nothing more, had caused Mrs. Schröder's trepidation; in
+Astonishment, nothing more, had caused Mrs. Schröder's trepidation; in
 an instant she had rushed forward and wound her arms round Barbara's
 neck, saying, "Shrink from you, my darling? why, what madness to
 suppose such a thing! Where should you come but to my house, in such a
@@ -11886,7 +11864,7 @@ he came in, his wife at once told him what had occurred; and when he
 met Barbara in the drawing-room, before dinner, he took her hands in
 both of his, and pressed his lips gravely on her forehead, and bade
 her welcome, and told her to consider his house as her home. For Mr.
-Schröder had, in his strange old-fashioned way, a very keen sense of
+Schröder had, in his strange old-fashioned way, a very keen sense of
 honour and of the respect due to women; and he felt, from the story
 that had been told to him, that Barbara's feelings had to a certain
 extent been outraged. He had never held much good opinion of the
@@ -11923,7 +11901,7 @@ had the courage and the determination to stand alone. That she must to
 a great extent have right on her side--that what she had done could
 not be looked upon as extravagant or unjustifiable--was proved, she
 argued to herself, by the kind reception she had met with at the hands
-of Mr. Schröder, a man who, as she judged from all she had heard and
+of Mr. Schröder, a man who, as she judged from all she had heard and
 seen of him; would not be likely lightly to pass over any breach of
 decorum. How or where the rest of her life was to be passed engrossed
 very little of her attention at first. She knew that there was no
@@ -11934,7 +11912,7 @@ insults had been heaped upon Frank by her aunt; and she thought almost
 tenderly of him as she decided that after these insults nothing would
 induce her to humiliate herself to Miss Lexden's caprices. The thought
 of writing to Sir Marmaduke Wentworth crossed her mind; but Alice
-Schröder had told her that Sir Marmaduke was laid up with a dangerous
+Schröder had told her that Sir Marmaduke was laid up with a dangerous
 illness in the Pyrenees; it would be very inopportune to worry him,
 then, with domestic dissensions; and moreover Barbara was in very
 great doubt as to whether the old gentleman, were he able, would not
@@ -11948,7 +11926,7 @@ could she make her case good before an unbiassed judge? There was the
 letter, and the letter in the same handwriting which he had received
 at Bissett; but she had no actual proofs that they were not such as
 should have been sent to any properly-conducted man. Great Heaven, if
-she had been too precipitate! if she had brought about an _exposé_ by
+she had been too precipitate! if she had brought about an _exposé_ by
 rashness and wretched jealousy; if she had wrongly suspected that kind
 and generous soul, and cruelly stabbed him without hearing his
 defence! As Barbara turned these matters in her mind, sitting in her
@@ -11965,11 +11943,11 @@ be unclouded happiness.
 
 But Frank did not come; and the next morning when Barbara found the
 hours wearing very slowly by, and no solution of her wretchedness
-arrived at; when little Alice Schröder's well-meant chatter
+arrived at; when little Alice Schröder's well-meant chatter
 --well-meant, intended to be consolatory, but still chatter after
 all--had utterly failed in giving the smallest consolation; when
 Captain Lyster had called, and having been properly prepared by Mrs.
-Schröder before he saw Barbara, had evidently the greatest difficulty
+Schröder before he saw Barbara, had evidently the greatest difficulty
 in assuming ignorance and unconcern; when the day had worn on, and no
 progress had been made by her in any one way,--the bitter spirit rose
 in her more strongly than ever, and she felt more and more impressed
@@ -12001,12 +11979,12 @@ Captain's truth and honour. She felt as though she would have liked to
 have talked to him about her own troubles; but she did not know how to
 start the subject, and Lyster never gave her the smallest chance.
 
-On the fourth day after Barbara's arrival, Mrs. Schröder asked her
+On the fourth day after Barbara's arrival, Mrs. Schröder asked her
 guest, as usual, if she would drive out after luncheon, and having
 received the usual negative, declared that she could not stand it any
 longer, but that air she must have. Barbara would excuse her? Of
 course Barbara would; nothing she liked so much as being left alone.
-Then Mrs. Schröder determined on riding, and ordered her horse and
+Then Mrs. Schröder determined on riding, and ordered her horse and
 groom round to the door, and went out for a ride.
 
 She though& she would go for a stretch round the suburban lanes; it
@@ -12025,7 +12003,7 @@ pleading; but they had little chance with her, so thoroughly in
 earnest was she. It was while in the height of his argument that they
 passed the lodge-gates of The Den, and were seen by Kate Mellon.
 
-Mrs. Schröder rode home that evening in a happier frame of mind than
+Mrs. Schröder rode home that evening in a happier frame of mind than
 she had been in for months. She felt that she had effectually settled
 all Mr. Beresford's pretentious, and that she might meet her husband
 without the smallest shadow on her brow. Her joy was a little dashed
@@ -12037,9 +12015,9 @@ compelled to go down and do the honours to him; that he had
 telegraphed to his brother to relieve him as soon as possible; and
 that he hoped to be back the next day.
 
-Mrs. Schröder's hopes were realised. In the course of the next
+Mrs. Schröder's hopes were realised. In the course of the next
 afternoon a cab drove up to the door in Saxe-Coburg Square, and Mr.
-Schröder descended from it. His wife, who had rushed to the balcony at
+Schröder descended from it. His wife, who had rushed to the balcony at
 the sound of wheels, noticed that his step was slow, and that--a thing
 she had never seen him do before--he leant upon the cabman's arm. When
 he entered the room she rushed to him, and, embracing him, asked him
@@ -12061,37 +12039,37 @@ persuade Barbara to drive yesterday?"
 
 "Beresford! I hate that name; he is a bad man. Bad! bad!"
 
-And Mr. Schröder shook his hand in the air, and was obviously very
+And Mr. Schröder shook his hand in the air, and was obviously very
 much excited.
 
-"Gustav," said Mrs. Schröder, "I'm very sorry that--"
+"Gustav," said Mrs. Schröder, "I'm very sorry that--"
 
 "Ah, you don't know! More of this Beresford another time. A bad man,
 my dear! Now I must look through my letters. Dinner at seven, eh?"
 
-And with a bow, Mr. Schröder descended to his library.
+And with a bow, Mr. Schröder descended to his library.
 
 
 The clock had struck seven, the gong had boomed through the house, and
 Alice and Barbara were standing at the dining-table; the place at the
 head being vacant.
 
-"You had better tell your master, Pilkington," said Mrs. Schröder to
+"You had better tell your master, Pilkington," said Mrs. Schröder to
 the great butler; "he is probably in his dressing-room."
 
 The great butler condescended to inform his mistress that he did not
 think his master had left the libery.
 
-Mrs. Schröder then bade him find his miter, and tell him they were
+Mrs. Schröder then bade him find his miter, and tell him they were
 waiting dinner.
 
 The butler left the room, and the next moment came running back, with
 a face whiter than his own neckcloth. Barbara saw him ere he had
 crossed the threshold; in an instant she saw that something had
 happened; and motioning the butler to precede her, walked to the
-library, followed by Mrs. Schröder.
+library, followed by Mrs. Schröder.
 
-Fallen prone on his face, across the library-table, lay Mr. Schröder,
+Fallen prone on his face, across the library-table, lay Mr. Schröder,
 dead, with an open letter rustling between his stiffening fingers.
 
 
@@ -12187,19 +12165,19 @@ would be the first luxury in which he would indulge; and he kept his
 word. "My lady," would chirp little Sir Hickory Maddox,--"my lady has
 bid me bring you this note of invitation to dine with us next
 Wednesday, Simnel. Formal, you perceive; for you are such a well-known
-stickler for formalities, that we fain must treat you à la Grandison;"
+stickler for formalities, that we fain must treat you à la Grandison;"
 and then Sir Hickory, who prided himself on the construction of his
 sentences, would double up his little head into his ample cravat, and
 bow in a mock heroic manner. But Mr. Simnel managed to find an excuse
 for not attending the solemn dinners of his chief; nor did he ever
-attend the pleasant _réunions_ of Mrs. Gillotson and Mrs. Franks,
+attend the pleasant _réunions_ of Mrs. Gillotson and Mrs. Franks,
 wives of the senior officers of his department, to which he was
 bidden. Of course, as a bachelor, it was not supposed that he should
 receive lady visitors; and though his rooms in Piccadilly had
 witnessed certain scenes which their proprietor described as _petits
 soupers_, but which the mother-in-law of the serious saddler who held
 the shop below openly proclaimed as "orgies," at which certain
-distinguished _coryphées_ of Her Majesty's Theatre were present, and
+distinguished _coryphées_ of Her Majesty's Theatre were present, and
 there was lots of fun and laughter and champagne, and an impromptu
 galop after supper,--no one could tax Simnel with any decided
 flirtation. He had been very polite to, more than that, very jolly
@@ -12246,7 +12224,7 @@ between his eyes and letters for signature to irascible correspondents
 and long accounts of indebted tax-payers. He was not long in obtaining
 an introduction to his idol; and then he saw at once, with his innate
 sharpness, that he had but little chance of pressing his suit. Long
-before that _éclaircissement_ which Beresford had described to him,
+before that _éclaircissement_ which Beresford had described to him,
 Simnel saw the state of affairs in that direction, and knew what Kate
 Mellon fondly hoped could never be realised. He did not think that the
 girl ever would have the chance of so plainly stating the position of
@@ -12339,20 +12317,20 @@ Simnel to seat himself on the top of them, took up his position
 immediately in front of him, and said, in a voice intended to be low,
 but in reality very hissingly sonorous,--
 
-"Waät be matther?"
+"Waät be matther?"
 
 It was seldom that Mr. Simnel was nonplussed, but this was beyond him.
 He had only caught one word, and that he thought better to repeat. So
 he merely ejaculated "matter?"
 
 "Ay, matther!" echoed the old man, this time in rather an angry tone.
-"Waät be matther down yon?" jerking his head towards the house. Mr.
+"Waät be matther down yon?" jerking his head towards the house. Mr.
 Simnel thought that the man was presuming on his position to take
 liberties, a very terrible crime in his eyes, so he simply elevated
 his thick eyebrows and echoed, "Down yon?"
 
-"Thou knowst waät a mean, sir, weel enow. Waät be matther wi' my
-leddy? waät be matther wi' my bright lassie ai've tended this ever so
+"Thou knowst waät a mean, sir, weel enow. Waät be matther wi' my
+leddy? waät be matther wi' my bright lassie ai've tended this ever so
 long?" and the old man's face puckered up into wrinkles, and he
 produced from his hat a cotton handkerchief, with which he rubbed his
 eyes.
@@ -12360,8 +12338,8 @@ eyes.
 "What do you mean. Freeman? I didn't follow you until this instant.
 Is--is your mistress ill?" asked Simnel.
 
-"No, not ill; that's to say waät folks call ill; always greetin', that
-waät she is,--thinkin' of something yon,--givin' no heed to waät goes
+"No, not ill; that's to say waät folks call ill; always greetin', that
+waät she is,--thinkin' of something yon,--givin' no heed to waät goes
 on close to her face. Eyes lookin' far away out into the distance; no
 thowt of the stock such as she had; hasn't been into the farrier's
 shop these three weeks,--blister here, singe there, do as 't loikes;
@@ -12380,9 +12358,9 @@ a philanderin' wi' her, on and off like,--you understand?"
 "If I'd thowt that," said old Freeman, "and I'd found 'em out, I'd
 beat 'ems brains out as if it were a stoat!" and as he spoke he struck
 the palm of his hand with the handle of his hunting-whip in an
-unmistakably vicious manner. "Dunno waät's coom to her to-day," he
+unmistakably vicious manner. "Dunno waät's coom to her to-day," he
 continued, after a pause; "haven't set eyes on her all the morning.
-Hasn't been in t'yard, hasn't been in t'staäbles, hasn't moved out of
+Hasn't been in t'yard, hasn't been in t'staäbles, hasn't moved out of
 t'house."
 
 This latter part of Freeman's speech seemed to arouse Mr. Simnel's
@@ -12572,7 +12550,7 @@ sole cause of my journey?"
 
 "And did you see them all? Is old Fox still alive; and Madam, with her
 deep voice and big bony hands; and Lucette and Josephine--big girls
-now, and doing the _haute-école_ business, I suppose; and Brownini,
+now, and doing the _haute-école_ business, I suppose; and Brownini,
 the clown, is he with them yet? and Thompson the barebacked-rider--a
 conceited beast, he was!--and old Bellars the band-leader? Lord, Lord
 what happy times those were! happier than I shall ever see again, I
@@ -12672,7 +12650,7 @@ Prater; but in the interval pending that luminary's arrival, Mr.
 Canthar, of the Medical Hall, was master of the position, and all
 those who were left with the body hung upon his words. It--it had
 already come to be called "it"--still lay in the library, where it had
-been found. Mrs. Schröder, who had hurried in close behind Barbara,
+been found. Mrs. Schröder, who had hurried in close behind Barbara,
 had, at the very first glimpse of the state of affairs, gone off into
 a violent fit of hysterics, and had been removed to her room, whither
 Barbara had followed her, and where the latter was now in close
@@ -12680,7 +12658,7 @@ attendance upon her stricken friend. When Mr. Canthar arrived (he had
 stripped off his black-calico apron and thrown it into the cork-drawer
 on being summoned, and completed his toilette _en route_ by running
 his fingers through such hair as remained on the sides of his head),
-he found Mr. Schröder's body stretched out on the sofa in the library,
+he found Mr. Schröder's body stretched out on the sofa in the library,
 and attended solely by the kitchen-maid and by a page-boy, who, partly
 from love to the kitchen-maid, partly from gratitude to his employers,
 bore her company. The other servants had declined having any thing to
@@ -12738,12 +12716,12 @@ find the wine agreeable to your taste, sir?"
 "Yes, yes, thank ye. I want you now to show me--ah, here's some one
 coming;" and the door opened, and Barbara Churchill entered the room.
 
-"Mrs. Schröder is very ill, doctor; you must see her before you go, if
+"Mrs. Schröder is very ill, doctor; you must see her before you go, if
 you please; in her absence I will conduct you. Pilkington--oh, there
 are lights, I suppose?--this way, doctor;" and she led the way to the
 library. This had been Barbara's first experience of death, and it was
 a severe trial for her, broken down as she was with her other
-miseries; but she saw how utterly helpless poor little Alice Schröder
+miseries; but she saw how utterly helpless poor little Alice Schröder
 was, and she determined to help to bear the misery of her sudden
 misfortune. So she preceded Dr. Prater to the library; and when she
 had opened the door, she beckoned to the kitchen-maid and page-boy, who
@@ -12756,15 +12734,15 @@ here the minute after, I could not have been of the least assistance.
 Must have been instantaneous, my dear madam,--instantaneous,--disease
 of the heart,--under which I long knew he laboured; but I never told
 him. What was the need? I've said to myself fifty times, 'Prater, you
-should tell Mr. Schröder of his danger;' and then, again, I've said to
-myself, 'What's the use? Mr. Schröder's not a man to relax those
+should tell Mr. Schröder of his danger;' and then, again, I've said to
+myself, 'What's the use? Mr. Schröder's not a man to relax those
 gigantic enterprises in which he is engaged, on the mere word of a
 theorist like myself. He'll only be annoyed at my interference.' There
 was no cause for any excitement, any special excitement, my dear miss?
 Pardon me; to whom have I the pleasure of speaking?"
 
 "I am Mrs. Churchill,--I was Miss Lexden,--a very intimate friend of
-Mrs. Schröder's before her marriage."
+Mrs. Schröder's before her marriage."
 
 "Ay, ay, ay! of course! how very remiss of me not to bear it in mind!
 Pleasure of including your husband, Mrs. Churchill, among my
@@ -12779,13 +12757,13 @@ can testify as to his heart-disease. Still, I'm afraid, my dear madam,
 there'll have to be a horrible--what we call a _post-mortem_. The
 ridiculous laws of this country are not satisfied with a professional
 man's word in such cases, and though--of course I'll take care there's
-no annoyance. Bad thing for Mrs. Schröder,--very! I'll go up and see
+no annoyance. Bad thing for Mrs. Schröder,--very! I'll go up and see
 her directly. By the way, my dear Mrs. Churchill," added the little
 doctor, edging himself very close to Barbara, and looking more than
 ever like an owl; "here's a paper which I picked off the floor of the
 library when I went in to see our poor late friend just now. I haven't
 looked at it myself, of course; but perhaps it might be well to put it
-away, and not to let Mrs. Schröder see it just yet; and," continued
+away, and not to let Mrs. Schröder see it just yet; and," continued
 the doctor, examining with great attention the pattern of the Turkey
 carpet, "I don't see that there's any necessity to mention its
 existence before the coroner's people,--no one else seems to have seen
@@ -12803,11 +12781,11 @@ usual in the morning; the great butler suspended his customary
 inspection of the plate and reviews of the china and glass; the young
 lady really born in Picardy, but passing current as a Parisian, who
 was called "Mumzell" by the other servants, and who was attached as
-special retainer to Mrs. Schröder, had no interviews with her lady on
+special retainer to Mrs. Schröder, had no interviews with her lady on
 toilet subjects, and found her health undoubtedly improved by being
 relieved from mental anxiety on the subject of the perpetual invention
 of new styles of head-dress. The tradesmen seemed to take Mr.
-Schröder's dying out of the season as a kind of personal affront. Had
+Schröder's dying out of the season as a kind of personal affront. Had
 it happened when every thing was in full swing, the poulterer had
 remarked, and when parties had the greatest worrit in supplying what
 parties ordered, why parties might have been glad of a lull; but now,
@@ -12828,9 +12806,9 @@ and so Mrs. Edwards the coachman's wife, and Nancy and Billy her young
 under-coachman, and one or two convivial friends, had two or three
 very pleasant days at Richmond and Hampton, proceeding thither in what
 they called a "weggynet," borrowed from the corn-chandler at the
-corner of the mews, and drawn now by the chestnuts which Mr. Schröder
+corner of the mews, and drawn now by the chestnuts which Mr. Schröder
 used to spin along in his mail-phaeton, now by the iron-grays which
-concentrated attention on Mrs. Schröder's equipage in the ring. And in
+concentrated attention on Mrs. Schröder's equipage in the ring. And in
 every department of the servants' hall and in the outlying regions
 connected therewith, there seemed to be an impression of the
 over-weening necessity for going in for good eating and drinking, as
@@ -12879,7 +12857,7 @@ girlish follies, and prayed for strength and succour and support; then
 rising, pressed her lips on its cold forehead, and was led from the
 room in a half-hysterical state.
 
-Yes; Alice Schröder had begun to wake to the realities of life, to
+Yes; Alice Schröder had begun to wake to the realities of life, to
 find that opera-boxes and drums and sealskin cloaks and equipages and
 money, all good things in their way, were powerless against Death; and
 that Death was not merely the bugbear which he had been always
@@ -12921,7 +12899,7 @@ to speak in somewhat slighting terms, to which she by her silence had
 given tacit approval of the dead man; ridiculing his age and habits,
 unfitting him for finding favour in ladies' eyes, and protesting
 against the hard fate which cast such pearls before such swine? All
-this came up clear and fresh in Alice Schröder's memory; and as it
+this came up clear and fresh in Alice Schröder's memory; and as it
 rose she hated Beresford with all her strength; and, struck with
 deepest remorse, wished--oh, how she wished!--that the time would come
 over again, that she might dower her husband with her love, and show
@@ -12946,7 +12924,7 @@ M'quiddit from Bedford Row, who was met on the door-step by his clerk,
 who presented him with an oblong packet, which the lawyer deposited in
 the library before joining the rest of the company; and little Dr.
 Prater, looking preternaturally solemn and wise,--all these gathered
-together to see Gustav Schröder to his grave. On the dining-room table
+together to see Gustav Schröder to his grave. On the dining-room table
 were cold fowls (already cut up, and tied together with pieces of
 black crape) and cold viands; but save Mr. M'Quiddit, who had come up
 from his country-house at Datchet and was hungry, no one tasted food.
@@ -12970,12 +12948,12 @@ Church, that for the burial of the dead, without the smallest atom of
 expression, and apparently without knowing what he was about; then
 he shut his book, and the bystanders one by one looked into the
 grave--and all was over. The mourning-coaches, which had come so
-slowly, went merrily back; the Schröders went to the City house, and
+slowly, went merrily back; the Schröders went to the City house, and
 sent telegrams and read share-lists, and talked of how soon Gustav's
 share in the concern ought to be realised; the uncles and cousins did
 much the same; the presentable clerk had a holiday, and met a few lady
 friends at the Zoological Gardens; Dr. Prater lunched at a rich
-patient's, where he told the story of Mr. Schröder's death, and dined
+patient's, where he told the story of Mr. Schröder's death, and dined
 at another rich patient's where he told it again; and Mr. M'Quiddit
 had an interview with the widow and gave her a short abstract of the
 will, which was eminently satisfactory.
@@ -13013,7 +12991,7 @@ from town would be highly antagonistic to any chance of a settlement
 which might transpire; and as this entirely coincided with her own
 views, she elected to remain in town.
 
-Mr. Schröder's will had been made a few months before his death, and
+Mr. Schröder's will had been made a few months before his death, and
 was in accordance with the general tenor of his married life. It
 ordered that his share in the City firm should be realised at the
 earliest favourable opportunity, and that it and all his other
@@ -13040,7 +13018,7 @@ was thought better by Mrs. Grundy, and her set, to wait a little,
 until there could be no possible doubt on the matter: After a little
 time, the intimates of the house were admitted. Old Mr. Townshend was
 still away on the Continent; and there never seemed to have been any
-other member of the Townshend family; but the Schröders came down in
+other member of the Townshend family; but the Schröders came down in
 flocks. The wives of the brothers, and the sisters, and the daughters'
 nieces, and cousins twice removed,--who so kind as they in time of
 trouble? Their husbands and fathers might be money-grubbers in the
@@ -13052,7 +13030,7 @@ they were among the most opulent of the earth. And Dr. Prater was
 there, of course, every day, chirrupping softly about the house, and
 going from thence up and down and into the ends of the London world,
 and talking of the enormous wealth left by his poor deceased friend
-Mr. Schröder to his interesting patient Mrs. Schröder. And Captain
+Mr. Schröder to his interesting patient Mrs. Schröder. And Captain
 Lyster came, sending up his card, and proffering his services in any
 manner in which they might be required; and then Barbara saw him; and
 after a little time Alice saw him; and his services were brought into
@@ -13067,7 +13045,7 @@ to these matters, and entered into them with an eagerness and a
 perseverance which astonished all who saw him--save Barbara, who
 perhaps might have made a shrewd guess as to the mainspring of his
 actions. Poor George Pringle had called too. He had been a good deal
-cut up by the death of Mr. Schröder, whom he had been accustomed to
+cut up by the death of Mr. Schröder, whom he had been accustomed to
 describe as "a good old cock, sir; a worthy old party; kind-hearted
 and all that, and giving no end good feeds;" and he had, in his rough
 way, great sympathy for his cousin Alice,--"a poor little thing, sir;
@@ -13077,7 +13055,7 @@ With consolation-end in view, Mr. Pringle arrived one Sunday afternoon
 at the door of the house in Saxe-Coburg Square, in a hansom cab,
 whence he extracted a smooth English white terrier, with a black patch
 over one eye. Taking this animal under his arm, he, after making due
-inquiries after Mrs. Schröder's health, transferred it to the
+inquiries after Mrs. Schröder's health, transferred it to the
 frightened grasp of Pilkington, requesting that it might be
 at once carried upstairs with his love. Pilkington was horribly
 frightened,--he "never could abide dawgs;" and so no sooner was the
@@ -13089,7 +13067,7 @@ Mr. Beresford called three times: once immediately after the
 announcement of the death, when he simply left his card; once on the
 day after the funeral, when, besides his card, he left a warm message
 of inquiry; once a fortnight after, when "he hoped he might be
-permitted to see Mrs. Schröder." Barbara was with Alice in her boudoir
+permitted to see Mrs. Schröder." Barbara was with Alice in her boudoir
 when this message arrived; and she noticed that the poor little woman
 went deadly white as she listened, and then flushed deeply.
 
@@ -13105,7 +13083,7 @@ the luxury of "a good cry," she drew out her handkerchief, and with it
 a paper, which fell to the ground at her feet. Looking down at it as
 it lay there, she recognised the paper which had been found in the
 library, and handed to her by Dr. Prater, on the night of Mr.
-Schröder's death, and which had ever since entirely escaped her
+Schröder's death, and which had ever since entirely escaped her
 recollection. She picked it up from the carpet, and opened it; but no
 sooner had her eyes fallen on the inside than she gave a start of
 astonishment, and uttered a low cry. The same!--unquestionably the
@@ -13129,14 +13107,14 @@ always carries out what he means. I know him well.
 
 
 It was, then, the receipt of this letter which had had such fatal
-effect on poor Mr. Schröder. He had fallen, pierced to the heart by
+effect on poor Mr. Schröder. He had fallen, pierced to the heart by
 this anonymous stab. Any excitement, any worry, or anxiety, coming
 suddenly on him, might have ended his life at any time, Dr. Prater had
 said; and so--Dr. Prater? It was he who had picked up this paper from
 the library-floor, on to which it had fallen from the dead man's hand.
 The doctor had asked her whether there had been any cause for sudden
 excitement; had suggested that the paper should not be shown to Mrs.
-Schröder; that its existence need not be mentioned before the coroner.
+Schröder; that its existence need not be mentioned before the coroner.
 He had read it, then. Barbara had no need to think twice to assure
 herself on that point. That the imputations on Alice which the
 anonymous letter conveyed were unfounded, Barbara had not the smallest
@@ -13167,7 +13145,7 @@ CHAPTER XXXIV.
 ET TU BRUTE!
 
 
-On the morning succeeding the day on which Mr. Schröder died, Mr.
+On the morning succeeding the day on which Mr. Schröder died, Mr.
 Simnel sat in his room in the Tin-Tax Office, deep in a reverie. The
 newspaper lay on the floor at his feet; he was slowly rubbing the knee
 from which it had just fallen, and his other hand supported his chin.
@@ -13193,12 +13171,12 @@ From all he had learned, he believed that of late the relations
 between her and her husband had been very much deepened and
 strengthened. He guessed somewhat of this from the fact that Beresford
 had been more than infrequent and shy in his allusions to that
-_ménage_, and to the pursuit he was engaged in in that quarter.
+_ménage_, and to the pursuit he was engaged in in that quarter.
 Beresford? By Jove! then his chance was come much sooner than either
 of them had anticipated! the great obstacle was removed, and he had
 the course clear before him. No, not exactly clear; the manner of her
 husband's death, the suddenness of it, would create a great revulsion
-in Mrs. Schröder's mind, and greatly imperil Mr. Beresford's chances,
+in Mrs. Schröder's mind, and greatly imperil Mr. Beresford's chances,
 however strong they might be. Whether they were strong or not was a
 matter of doubt in Mr. Simnel's mind; he had a great contempt for
 Beresford's word, knowing him to be possessed of a happy inability to
@@ -13210,10 +13188,10 @@ disreputable, and one which redounded to the credit of no one engaged
 in it. Would it not be better to drop Mr. Beresford altogether, and
 leave him to fight his own way in the matter? It certainly would be
 more honourable and satisfactory in every way; but then--why then, if
-Mr. Beresford did not marry some rich woman (and Mrs. Schröder was his
+Mr. Beresford did not marry some rich woman (and Mrs. Schröder was his
 best chance), he would go to the dogs; and then what would become of
 his, Simnel's, eight hundred and twenty five pounds? Worse still, if
-Beresford did not succeed with Mrs. Schröder, he might suddenly veer
+Beresford did not succeed with Mrs. Schröder, he might suddenly veer
 round, and on the impulse of the moment, and under the pressure of
 creditors, go up and declare for Kate Mellon's hand. And Simnel was by
 no means certain that that young woman would decline such an offer,
@@ -13228,7 +13206,7 @@ room. He nodded airily, and, pointing to the newspaper on the floor,
 said, "You've seen it, of course? That chattering doctor-fellow was
 right, you see. What do you think of it?"
 
-"Of it? of what? of Mr. Schröder's death, do you mean? I think it a
+"Of it? of what? of Mr. Schröder's death, do you mean? I think it a
 very sad thing."
 
 "The devil you do!" said Mr. Beresford with a sneering laugh; "the
@@ -13243,7 +13221,7 @@ the strength of it.
 "Be good enough to understand, Mr. Beresford, that that is language
 which I don't permit _any body_ to use to me!" said Simnel, through
 his shut teeth, and with a very white face; "I repeat that I think Mr.
-Schröder's death a very sad thing. Why do you choose to sneer when I
+Schröder's death a very sad thing. Why do you choose to sneer when I
 say so?"
 
 "No, no, not sneer: hang it, old fellow! you take one up so infernally
@@ -13264,7 +13242,7 @@ the success of our scheme; and he is removed."
 "Well; looking at it in that way--"
 
 "In that way! in what other way would you look at it? It's in a
-remarkably _£ s.d_. kind of way that it presents itself to me, I can
+remarkably _£ s.d_. kind of way that it presents itself to me, I can
 tell you. I don't mind mentioning now, Simnel, what I shouldn't have
 let on otherwise; that I'm tremendously dipped; in for--ay, I daresay,
 three thousand more than you know any thing about; and here's the
@@ -13272,7 +13250,7 @@ chance come just in the nick of time."
 
 "Where did you get in for this? and where did you get the money?"
 
-"Get in for it? Doncaster, the Cæsarewitch, the Cambridgeshire! each
+"Get in for it? Doncaster, the Cæsarewitch, the Cambridgeshire! each
 infernal thing went to the bad. I stood a cracker on the first; then
 tried a pull through with the other two; and was all wrong with the
 lot. Scadgers, Parkinson, and a new man, Barnett, of Stamford Street,
@@ -13366,7 +13344,7 @@ declaration to bring to a favourable issue."
 
 "A letter. I will draft you what I should suggest; and if you approve,
 you can copy it, or embody it in any thing else you have to say to
-Mrs. Schröder;" and Mr. Simnel sat down at once at his desk and began
+Mrs. Schröder;" and Mr. Simnel sat down at once at his desk and began
 to write. Mr. Beresford sat watching him the while. Not a change in
 Simnel's face, not an inflexion of his voice, had escaped him; and he
 wondered what it all meant, and in what Kate Mellon's fortunes could
@@ -13375,10 +13353,10 @@ have influence over the impassible secretary of the Tin-Tax Office.
 
 Two days after this interview, Mr. Beresford called in Saxe-Coburg
 Square and sent up his card, requesting an interview with Mrs.
-Schröder. The usual message of excuse being returned to him, he gave
+Schröder. The usual message of excuse being returned to him, he gave
 the servant a letter which he had brought with him, and begged that
 the man would take it to his mistress; he would await the answer. Mrs.
-Schröder, seated in her boudoir, read the note, seemed greatly
+Schröder, seated in her boudoir, read the note, seemed greatly
 disturbed, told the man that she would send an answer downstairs by
 her maid, and immediately rushed off to the adjacent bedroom, where
 Barbara Churchill was lamenting all that had happened, and wondering
@@ -13420,28 +13398,28 @@ somewhat darkened by heavy curtains, and he could not clearly make out
 who it was. When Barbara, stopping, pulled herself to her fall height,
 he stopped, too, disappointed; he expected some one far less majestic.
 
-"You wished to see Mrs. Schröder, I believe, Mr. Beresford," said
+"You wished to see Mrs. Schröder, I believe, Mr. Beresford," said
 Barbara, after the first salutation: "I come as her representative."
 
 "I am very sensible of the honour you do me, Mrs. Churchill," replied
 Beresford; "but I fear that no representative will do. I want to speak
-to Mrs. Schröder herself."
+to Mrs. Schröder herself."
 
 "That is impossible," said Barbara, calmly.
 
 "Impossible is a very strong word, Mrs. Churchill. I sent Mrs.
-Schröder a letter--"
+Schröder a letter--"
 
 "Oh, yes, here it is; it is about this letter that I have come to you.
 You'll sit, Mr. Beresford, please; for this is likely to be a
-prolonged talk. Now you know that I am Mrs. Schröder's oldest and most
+prolonged talk. Now you know that I am Mrs. Schröder's oldest and most
 intimate friend, and as such I am deputed to answer this letter."
 
 "Pardon me, I have no grounds for believing the latter part--"
 
 "Except my word; and you won't doubt that? No! I thought not! Now, Mr.
 Beresford, I am about to  speak very plainly to you, always relying on
-you as a gentleman. Mrs. Schröder is very young, and rather
+you as a gentleman. Mrs. Schröder is very young, and rather
 thoughtless and not too much gifted with brains. Since you have been
 acquainted with her, both before and after marriage, you have paid her
 small attentions, such as no woman dislikes. They were attentions such
@@ -13452,11 +13430,11 @@ afraid of. But the case is altered now! Poor Alice is unfortunately
 in the position of having no husband as her guide and safeguard,
 and--these attentions must cease!"
 
-"You speak as Mrs. Schröder's mouthpiece, Mrs. Churchill?"
+"You speak as Mrs. Schröder's mouthpiece, Mrs. Churchill?"
 
 "Precisely! In this letter which I have here, there is a tone which I
 am sure you did not intend to convey; but about which it is my duty to
-speak to you plainly. Under present circumstances Mrs. Schröder feels
+speak to you plainly. Under present circumstances Mrs. Schröder feels
 it necessary to limit her knowledge of you to that of the merest
 acquaintance. There is no other footing on which you can know each
 other. If you were not what I know you to be, a gentleman, I should
@@ -13474,7 +13452,7 @@ chosen to talk."
 "Ah, ah!" said Mr. Beresford, with a smile of returning satisfaction.
 
 "Yes, in its usual base and unfounded manner. Here is an anonymous
-letter which was addressed to the late Mr. Schröder."
+letter which was addressed to the late Mr. Schröder."
 
 "Let me look at it!" said Beresford, eagerly.
 
@@ -13487,7 +13465,7 @@ his colour change and his hand shake. But he read it through without
 saying a word, and returned it to her with a bow.
 
 "You will see now, Mr. Beresford, the utter impossibility of Mrs.
-Schröder's permitting her acquaintance with you to continue," said
+Schröder's permitting her acquaintance with you to continue," said
 Barbara. "You will see that the note which you addressed to her can
 have no answer but that which I have already given you; and that
 henceforth, as a gentleman, you are bound in honour not to--"
@@ -13540,7 +13518,7 @@ own money, would relieve her from the necessity of pursuing her then
 occupation, of doing any thing but play her part as mistress of her
 house, and enjoy herself. What a fool was Beresford!--ah, that opened
 up a fresh vein of thought! He had said yesterday that, failing in his
-pursuit of Mrs. Schröder, should fall back on Kate Mellon, and try and
+pursuit of Mrs. Schröder, should fall back on Kate Mellon, and try and
 patch up that severed alliance. Simnel's heart beat loudly as this
 recurred to his mind; he knew how deep had been the attachment which
 Kate had formed for Beresford, and he was not sure that she would not
@@ -13593,7 +13571,7 @@ she-devil, cost what it may! to--"
 
 "Steady, sir! you're using strong language--"
 
-"Oh! what! Kate Mellon, I mean; not Mrs. Schröder--my mind's made up
+"Oh! what! Kate Mellon, I mean; not Mrs. Schröder--my mind's made up
 with regard to her! I shall--"
 
 "Look here, Beresford; did you come here to rave and storm before me,
@@ -13610,12 +13588,12 @@ somewhere for a fortnight, and then come back and see how the land
 lies."
 
 "And so lose every chance I've got! No, thank ye. You know all that
-business yesterday was Mrs. Churchill, not Mrs. Schröder. I don't
+business yesterday was Mrs. Churchill, not Mrs. Schröder. I don't
 believe the widow knows a word about that cursed letter; and there may
 be a chance of getting over her yet, though that Churchill woman is as
 deep as the Whissendine. She and I always hated each other, I think,
 and I don't intend to let her beat me now; no! I've sent a line to
-Mrs. Schröder marked private, without any flummery of former days, or
+Mrs. Schröder marked private, without any flummery of former days, or
 any thing of that sort,--simply begging her to meet me in the Row this
 afternoon and give me five minutes' talk. If she does that, I think I
 can put matters square; and if not--"
@@ -13628,7 +13606,7 @@ people are on. There have been some fellows hanging about my door in
 South Audley Street; and I fancy, from what Stephens says, they were
 any thing but the right sort. What are you thinking about?"
 
-"I was thinking," said Mr. Simnel slowly, "that if this Schröder
+"I was thinking," said Mr. Simnel slowly, "that if this Schröder
 business does not come off,--and I don't think it will,--you'd better
 send in a certificate from Prater or some one, and get away to the
 Continent for six months."
@@ -13639,7 +13617,7 @@ it don't do, I'll very likely take your advice."
 After Mr. Beresford had gone, Mr. Simnel sat with his feet on the
 fender, slowly rubbing his knee. "It must be hurried through at once,"
 he said to himself. "I'll square the settlement to-day; and if
-Beresford fails with Mrs. Schröder, he must be got out of town and
+Beresford fails with Mrs. Schröder, he must be got out of town and
 abroad. Vengeance, eh? no, not quite that, my fine fellow. Long before
 you come back, there'll be somebody with a right to interfere, if any
 thing like vengeance is threatened."
@@ -13648,7 +13626,7 @@ thing like vengeance is threatened."
 And how fared it with Kate Mellon all this while? what had happened to
 the pivot on which so many schemes of love and hate, of worship and
 revenge, were turning? In a bad way was Kate Mellon mentally and
-thence physically. The news of Mr. Schröder's death, which she
+thence physically. The news of Mr. Schröder's death, which she
 had read accidentally in an "odds and ends" column of a cheap
 sporting-paper, had come upon her with a terrific shock. She had
 compared dates, and found that it had happened on the day after the
@@ -13677,13 +13655,13 @@ listless and drowsy, as was her wont nowadays, and with her head
 buried in her hands. She roused herself at a loud knock at the door,
 and bade the person enter. It was old Freeman, the stud-groom.
 
-"Here's Hockley, miss, just coom down from town staäbles. Black harse
+"Here's Hockley, miss, just coom down from town staäbles. Black harse
 from Ireland, 'raived last neet."
 
 "What horse, Freeman?"
 
-"Waät harse, eh? Mai bairn, thee'rt gangin' daft wi' soommut; ai
-heeard not waät! Waät harse? why, black harse we bought of Markis
+"Waät harse, eh? Mai bairn, thee'rt gangin' daft wi' soommut; ai
+heeard not waät! Waät harse? why, black harse we bought of Markis
 Clonmel--black hoonter which Johnson wrote aboot last week."
 
 "Ay, ay, I recollect! What does Hockley say of him?"
@@ -13731,8 +13709,8 @@ touching it with her whip. "I'll just see what he's made of in the
 Row."
 
 "Miss," said old Freeman, coming up close to her, and whispering,
-"better wait till t'see waät's made of oop in tan-ride at
-whoom--naästy brute, I'm thinkin' 't 'ill prove."
+"better wait till t'see waät's made of oop in tan-ride at
+whoom--naästy brute, I'm thinkin' 't 'ill prove."
 
 "Ah, never mind, Freeman; there's room in the Row to give him a very
 good bucketing. Bring him out."
@@ -13808,7 +13786,7 @@ CHAPTER XXXVI.
 
 When Mr. Scadgers walked into the lobby of the Tin-Tax Office soon
 after noon on the day on which Mr. Beresford had announced to Mr.
-Simnel his intention of taking some decisive step in the Schröder
+Simnel his intention of taking some decisive step in the Schröder
 business, he asked to be shown to Mr. Simnel. The abruptness and
 audacity of this demand struck dismay into the breasts of the
 attendant messengers; they could scarcely believe their ears. Mr.
@@ -14032,7 +14010,7 @@ give her ten thousand pounds."
 "I refuse!" said Mr. Townshend; "I entirely refuse; I--"
 
 "Oh, no, you don't," interrupted Mr. Simnel; "you'll think better of
-it. Why shouldn't you? You gave Mrs. Schröder, who didn't want it at
+it. Why shouldn't you? You gave Mrs. Schröder, who didn't want it at
 all, twenty thousand; but you're not so well off just now, I know."
 
 "How do you know that, you who are so well-informed on all my
@@ -14052,7 +14030,7 @@ Better that than stone-quarrying at Portland at your time of life,
 sir, I can tell you, besides humiliation. Nonsense! It is not as if
 the acknowledging this daughter would hurt the prospects of the other.
 She has done with you now. If she marries again, it will be as Mr.
-Schröder's widow, without reference to you. Don't you understand?"
+Schröder's widow, without reference to you. Don't you understand?"
 ("He didn't like that allusion to Portland," said Simnel to himself.
 "I distinctly heard his teeth chatter as I said the word.")
 
@@ -14065,7 +14043,7 @@ Better that than stone-quarrying at Portland at your time of life,
 sir, I can tell you, besides humiliation. Nonsense! It is not as if
 the acknowledging this daughter would hurt the prospects of the other.
 She has done with you now. If she marries again, it will be as Mr.
-Schröder's widow, without reference to you. Don't you understand?"
+Schröder's widow, without reference to you. Don't you understand?"
 ("He didn't like that allusion to Portland," said Simnel to himself.
 "I distinctly heard his teeth chatter as I said the word.")
 "And suppose I were to consent to this proposition, sir," said the old
@@ -14107,7 +14085,7 @@ haggard as a corpse.
 
 
 "Poor devil!" thought Simnel, "I pity him thoroughly. But there must
-be no shrinking now, and no delay, or that Schröder-Beresford business
+be no shrinking now, and no delay, or that Schröder-Beresford business
 may fall through; and then--" "I must get you to act at once, then,
 Mr. Townshend, if you please," he said aloud. "Your daughter had
 better come to you at once, and we can then be married in a month or
@@ -14167,7 +14145,7 @@ up, and pointed it out to her companion. Then they both looked eagerly
 out, and checked the coachman just as they reached the spot. By his
 mistress's orders the footman descended, inquired what had happened,
 and returned to the carriage to report. The next minute Alice
-Schröder, closely followed by Barbara Churchill, was kneeling by Kate
+Schröder, closely followed by Barbara Churchill, was kneeling by Kate
 Mellon's side.
 
 What was it?--how had it happened?--who was the lady?--did any one
@@ -14188,7 +14166,7 @@ had come up; among them a tall thin gentleman on an old white horse.
 This gentleman dismounted at once, quietly pushed his way through the
 crowd, knelt down by poor Kate Mellon's senseless body, and placed his
 finger on her pulse; then, looking up with a grave, thoughtful,
-professional smile into Mrs. Schröder's face, said:
+professional smile into Mrs. Schröder's face, said:
 
 "You are a friend of this lady's?"
 
@@ -14234,10 +14212,10 @@ Kate Mellon, and with Alice and Barbara attendant on her, and the
 doctor riding close by, they drove slowly away.
 
 Informed by the doctor that it would be dangerous to attempt to carry
-the patient upstairs, Mrs. Schröder had sent the footman on with
+the patient upstairs, Mrs. Schröder had sent the footman on with
 instructions; and by the time they arrived at the house they found
 that a bed had been prepared in the library, a room on the ground
-floor, unused since Mr. Schröder's death. As they passed through
+floor, unused since Mr. Schröder's death. As they passed through
 Queen's Gate Dr. B. had cantered off, promising to return in a minute,
 and they had scarcely laid poor Kitty on the bed before he appeared,
 followed by a handsome bald-headed man, with a keen eye and a smile of
@@ -14280,9 +14258,9 @@ have been pupils of hers?"
 "Pupils!" said Alice; "no, indeed; was she a governess?"
 
 "We do not even know this poor lady's name," said Barbara; "we saw the
-accident, and Mrs. Schröder had her brought here at once."
+accident, and Mrs. Schröder had her brought here at once."
 
-"Mrs. Schröder is an angel of mercy," said Mr. Slade, with an
+"Mrs. Schröder is an angel of mercy," said Mr. Slade, with an
 old-fashioned bow. "This poor girl lying downstairs is Miss Mellon, a
 riding-mistress; a most correct and proper person, I've always heard,
 and one who had a great deal to do in breaking and training horses.
@@ -14917,7 +14895,7 @@ the daughter of a rich country squire--in the manner to which she had
 been accustom; but he knew equally well that the rich country squire
 would, in all probability, make a handsome settlement on his daughter;
 and to this he thoroughly looked forward. Not that there should be
-urged against him the least suspicion of an _arrière pensée_; he loved
+urged against him the least suspicion of an _arrière pensée_; he loved
 the girl with all his heart and soul and strength; but as in these
 days he would never have thought of riding forth into Fleet Street and
 proclaiming her beauty and virtue, and challenging all who might feel
@@ -15107,7 +15085,7 @@ towards him, but her eyes were dropped to the ground. She did not
 raise them as her husband entered, but remained in the same attitude,
 while he stopped short as the butler closed the door behind him. Frank
 Churchill was not entirely taken by surprise; he knew that his wife
-had been staying with her friend Mrs. Schröder, and this fact flashed
+had been staying with her friend Mrs. Schröder, and this fact flashed
 across him when he first received Kate Mellon's summons: but he
 thought that she might have left the house; that she might have gone
 probably to her aunt Miss Lexden--at all events, that there was no
@@ -15327,7 +15305,7 @@ like all the rest of their wretched machinations, it has some slight
 shadow of a foundation. Captain Lyster _has_ been here; has been here
 frequently,--oh, you need not raise your eyebrows,--it was not to see
 me he came. I will tell you, in self-defence, what I would not have
-mentioned otherwise. Ever since Mrs. Schröder's trouble, Captain
+mentioned otherwise. Ever since Mrs. Schröder's trouble, Captain
 Lyster has been her kindest and most active friend. Before she was
 married he took the greatest interest in her; and it was only her
 father's incontrovertible desire that she should marry as she did,
@@ -15382,13 +15360,13 @@ to ask news of those with whom the whole of her life had been spent? I
 used to ask Captain Lyster for such news; and he would give it me,
 always in the gentlest and most delicate manner; telling me, of
 course, of gaieties that had taken place, but pointing out how silly
-they were, and how happy the most fêted girls at them would be to
+they were, and how happy the most fêted girls at them would be to
 settle down into a calm happy love, such as--such as he thought I
 possessed."
 
 "Did he say all this?"
 
-"He did; and more--much more. Since I have been here, Alice Schröder
+"He did; and more--much more. Since I have been here, Alice Schröder
 has told me that on several occasions when your name has been freely
 commented upon, Captain Lyster has defended you with the utmost
 warmth, and with a spirit which one can scarcely imagine so naturally
@@ -15995,7 +15973,7 @@ you!
 When he had finished the reading of this characteristic epistle, he
 told Mr. Russell of its purport; and heard from the old gentleman that
 the legacy named therein had been provided for by the will. Then Frank
-returned to Saxe-Coburg Square, and settled with Mrs. Schröder and
+returned to Saxe-Coburg Square, and settled with Mrs. Schröder and
 Barbara that they should at once leave for Brighton, whither, after
 poor Kitty's funeral, he would follow them.
 
@@ -16133,7 +16111,7 @@ Mr. Beresford, pursued with the most unrelenting animosity by
 Scadgers, found himself opposed at every step,--even when, in sheer
 despair, he petitioned the Court,--and opposed so successfully, that
 he was remanded for two years. This period he passed in prison, and in
-cultivating the mysteries of racket, _écarté_ and _piquet_, in the two
+cultivating the mysteries of racket, _écarté_ and _piquet_, in the two
 last of which he became a great proficient. It is to be hoped that
 they will be of service to him on the Continent, whither, having
 eventually obtained his release, he has repaired; and where his
@@ -16177,7 +16155,7 @@ business, under the title of The Government-Clerks' Own Friend and
 Unlimited. Advance Company (limited), and who propose to make Jinks
 manager with a large salary.
 
-There is no Mrs. Schröder now, and no house appertaining to any one of
+There is no Mrs. Schröder now, and no house appertaining to any one of
 that name in Saxe-Coburg Square. Captain and Mrs. Lyster live in a
 large house at Maidenhead, known to their friends as "The Staircase,"
 from the enormous size of the _escalier_, but really known as
@@ -16219,363 +16197,4 @@ THE END.
 
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