Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land

sal. She smiled to herself in mournful amusement. For she scarcely questioned the probability that her friend would in due course become disillusioned of a very ordina

Memory's dust-bin! On how many pyres had not that oft-widowed soul committed suttee to be resurrected at the next

with persons. Art, Literature, Higher Thought, Nature, Philanthrophy, Mysticism-she spelled everything with a capital letter-Platonic Passion-the last most dangerous and

house of Gaverick decently well to do, excepting indeed Eliza, Countess of Gaverick. She had been a Glasgow heiress and only belonged to the aristocracy by right of marri

accumulated a small fortune in business, was able by some lucky chance to buy back the Castle-partly with his wife's money-soon after his accession to the barren honours of the family. His widow inherited the place as well as the rest of her husband's property, and could do as she pleased w

verick, his career may be summed up as a series of d

Lady Bridget-had deserted him for an operatic tenor and had d

subsisted precariously as a company promoter. There had come a final smash: and one morning the Earl of Gaverick had been found dead in his be

eral views on the marriage question, Lady Bridget O'Hara m