after all I really believe she has not seen me."

Then, after a severe struggle, she succeeded in getting on the
stage as a song and dance girl. She sang melodiously and danced
divinely, so remarkably that the ignorant public, knowing her to be
a Manx girl, and vaguely associating her with the symbol of the
Isle of Man, supposed she had three legs. She was the success of
the season; her cup of ambition was filled. It was slightly
embittered by the news that her friend Jinny Jones had killed
herself in the church at the wedding of her recreant lover and the
American heiress. But the affair was scarcely alluded to by the
Society papers--who were naturally shocked at the bad taste of the
deceased. And even Golly forgot it all--on the stage.


BOOK IV


Meanwhile John Gale, or Brother Boreas, as he was known in the
monastery, was submitting--among other rigors--to an exceptionally
severe winter in Bishopsgate Street, which seemed to have an Arctic
climate of its own,--possibly induced by the "freezing-out" process
of certain stock companies in its vicinity.

"You are miserable, and eager to get out in the wicked world again,
my son, said the delightful old Superior, as he sat by the only
fire, sipping a glass of mulled port, when John came in from
shoveling snow outside. "I, therefore, merely to try you, shall
make you gatekeeper. The keys of the monastery front door are
under the door-mat in my cell, but I am a sound sleeper." He