...PROMISE. CHAPTER XI. ' /( it icell to be merry and wise. It ii well to be honest and true, It is u-ell to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." HE crisp fresh mornings of October, bright mornings full of bracing suggestions of rapid exercise,...

...only in joke. No, no ; I care for nobody, and nobody cares for me ; and she began to sing, ' 'Tis best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new/ By the by, I have brought home a relation with me — oh, such a dreadful old maid : very rich and...

...cannot perhaps be said that Florists do not conform to the advice conveyed in the song, that " 'Tis well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new ;" but they certainly are very fickle in their loves, and can scarcely be said to even have an old...

...that the ditchers are flirting with a new love ? Certainly it is but a small one, but " it is better to be off with the old love before you are on with the new." They should beware lest the dreaming magician return, and with a wave of his hand open their eyes,...

...discover ; at length, however, my eye fell on a paragraph, headed in Brobdignagian letters, " It is good to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new ;" containing a coarse and calumnious allusion to Miss Sidney, and marked with so due a proportion...

...discover; at length, however, my eye fell on a paragraph, headed in Brobdignagian letters, " It is good to be off with the old love, before you are on with the Mrs. Sidney, after the approved fashion of maternity, inflexibly maintained that all her children were...

...lady of great beauty and intelligence. He had apparently not heard the Scottish proverb, "It is best to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new." A short time afterwards, he was startlingly reminded of its truth. Although agonised and almost " driven...

...lady of great beauty and intelligence. He had apparently not heard the Scottish proverb, " It is best to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new." A short time afterwards, he was startlingly reminded of its truth. Although agonised and almost " driven...

...to him. CHAPTER XII. " 'Tis well to be honest and wise, 'Tis well to be faithful and true, 'Tis weU to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." OLD SONG. " But, when the maid departed, A Suabian raised his hand, And cried, all hot and flushed...

...ijtorHr, t\t Jfl^Ij, anfr SECTION' IX. ".I press towards the mark." — Phil. iii. 14. " It's well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." Old Song. " High hopes have ofttimes hard fortunes ; . And such as hastily snatch at the branches Are...