But it is quite as disagreeable to be refused by a ' goosey girl of seventeen' as by a young lady of seven-and-twenty.

"You are a goosey girl!" said her father fondly.

" Goosey girl," he said, kissing her, "who was it that said no marriage ever suited all parties unconcerned?"

"A little conceited, goosey girl-that'swhat you are, Mollie Dane, whom ever this terrible event can not make serious and sensible."