. Toutes sortes et conditions d'hommes : une histoire impossible . e lui loin. * certainement. C'est un grand crédit, monsieur Bunker, en tant qu'homme achrétien, parce que le sang caillé doit être désagréable. Mais—ce qui roc ? Un rocher. Un rocher, une femme. Dans cette maison, monsieur, elle • livesHer nom est Mlle Kennedy. C'est ce qu'elle appelle elle-même. Shesa couturier par le commerce, dit-elle, et un captiveur de jeunes stupides par nature. N'y allez pas. Elle peut vous captiver, Daniel Fagg lui a fait une offre de mariage, et elle en a soixante. Heconfessed pour moi. Elle l'a essayé avec moi, mais un homme de principes est la preuve. Le conjurer voulait

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. All sorts and conditions of men : an impossible story . e him away. * Certainly. It does you great credit, Mr. Bunker, as aChristian man, because curdled blood must be unpleasant. But—what rocks ? A rock. One rock, a woman. In that ouse, sir, she • livesHer name is Miss Kennedy. That is what she calls herself. Shesa dressmaker by trade, she says, and a captivator of foolish youngmen by nature. Dont go anigh her. She may captivate you, Daniel Fagg made her an offer of marriage, and hes sixty. Heconfessed it to me. She tried it on with me, but a man ofprinciples is proof. The conjurer wanted to marry her. Mynephew, Dick Coppin, is a fool about her. She must be a very remarkable woman, said Lord Jocelyn. As for that boy, Harry Goslett—Bunker uttered the name•with an obvious eflbrt—hes farther gone than all the rest puttogether. If it wasnt for her, he would go back to where hecame from. Ah I and where is that ? * Dont you know, then P You, the man who took him away PDont you know where he came fromP Was it somethini? verybod ? ^ ^ ^7. / am—the—Vic dressmaker^ ALL SORTS AND CONLITIONS OF MmT. 261 There was a look of eager malignity about the mans face; hewanted to hear something bad about his nephew. Lord Jocelyn encouraged him. Perhaps I know, perhaps I do not. A disgraceful story, no doubt, said Bunker, with a pleasedsmile. *I dreaded the worst when I saw him with his whitenands and his sneerin fleerin ways. I thought of Newgate andgaol-birds; I did indeed, at once. Oh, prophetic soul! Well, now we know the worst; and you had better take him away beforeall the world knows it. I shant talk, of course. Thank you, Mr. Bunker. And about this Miss Kennedy—is there anything against her, except that the men fall in love withher? * There is plenty against her that would astonish you. But Imnot the man to take away a womans character. If all secretswere known we should iind what a viper weve been cherishing.At the end of her year out she goes of my ousa. Bag an

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