lately invented a new religion"

"Ah!" said Lothaw eagerly, with difficulty restraining himself from
rushing toward her.

"Yes; shall I introduce you?"

Lothaw thought of Lady Coriander's High Church proclivities, of the
Cardinal, and hesitated: "No, I thank you, not now."


CHAPTER V.


Lothaw was maturing. He had attended two woman's rights
conventions, three Fenian meetings, had dined at White's, and had
danced vis-a-vis to a prince of the blood, and eaten off of gold
plates at Crecy House.

His stables were near Oxford, and occupied more ground than the
University. He was driving over there one day, when he perceived
some rustics and menials endeavoring to stop a pair of runaway
horses attached to a carriage in which a lady and gentleman were
seated. Calmly awaiting the termination of the accident, with
high-bred courtesy Lothaw forbore to interfere until the carriage
was overturned, the occupants thrown out, and the runaways secured
by the servants, when he advanced and offered the lady the
exclusive use of his Oxford stables.

Turning upon him a face whose perfect Hellenic details he