This adroit question touched the heart of Miss Jane Osborne not a little. "I don't know whether we poor girls ought to believe what you men say, Captain," she said. "There is that in woman's tenderness which induces her to believe too easily. I'm afraid you are cruel, cruel deceivers,"--and Dobbin certainly thought he felt a pressure of the hand which Miss Osborne had extended to him.

This adroit question touched the heart of Miss Jane Osborne. "I don't know whether we poor girls ought to believe what you men say, Captain," she said. "I'm afraid you are cruel, cruel deceivers." Dobbin thought he felt a pressure of her hand, and