appeared, she no sooner beheld the latent uneasiness and misery of her brother than she developed a grim satisfaction, and began to enjoyherself after her own manner. Though the wet came stealing through theroof and trickling down upon their heads, Miss Brass uttered nocomplaint, but presided over the tea equipage with imperturbable | composure. While Mr Quilp, in his uproarious hospitality, seated himself upon an empty beer-barrel, vaunted the place as the mostbeautiful and comfortable in the three kingdoms, and elevating hisglass, drank to their next merry-meeting in that jovial spot; and MrBrass, with the rain plashing down into his tea-cup, made a dismalattempt to pluck up his spirits and appear at his ease; and Tom Scott,who was in waiting at the door under an old umbrella, exulted in hisagonies, and bade fair to split his sides with laughing; while all thiswas passing, Miss Sally Brass, unmindful of the wet which dripped downupon her own feminine person and fair apparel, sat placidly behind the |