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158 BLACK SHEEP.per circles, as can't afford 'em, across the street.They're awful bewildered,mostly, when they comeout of the theayter, and dreadful timid of the'busses."Very silent, and apparently sleepy, yvas Mr.James Swain all day; and as his old aunt satpatiently toiling by the window, he lay upon hisbed, with his knees up, and his hands crossed onthe top of his tousled head. Alloyving for the differencecreated by refinement, education, and thehabit of thinking on a system, only possible to theeducated, there yvas some resemblance in the expressionof the boy's face to that yvhich HarrietRouth's had worn yesterday, when she had carriedthe burden of her thoughts, under the clear skyand the sunshine,in the Green Park. Jim Swain,too, looked as if he alone, unaided as she, wasthinkingit out.Thenewplay at the Adelphi was very successful.The theatre was crowded; the autumnalventure had turned out admirably; ancl thoughthe audience could not be called fashionable,it wasperhaps rather more animated ancl satisfactory in