...encounter before she meets them again face to face, 'puir young thing !' CHAPTER XVII. ' °Tis best to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.' VANE FAULKENER has in nothing deceived Esmee. He has never pretended to 'Johnston's bower or Huntingtower.'...

...celibacy. Is it not, Carryngton?" " But," said Mrs. Morris, " is it not in this case a little rash to be off with the old love before you are on with the new ? Why announce to society that you fling it over before you get into Parliament?" " It is the enthusiasm...

...Paul had taken that day. ' " Tis good to be merry and wise, Tis good to be honest and true ; Tis good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." Eh, mamma?' And stooping and picking up Paul's poor crushed flower that lay behind her mother, she...

...encounter before she meets them again face to face, 'puir young thing !' CHAPTER XVII. ' Tis best (o be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.' VANE FAULKENER has in nothing deceived Esme'e. He has never pretended to 'Johnston's bower or Huntingtower.'...

...twist Chanticleer's neck for it, till he could no more cry cock-a-doodle than a cork-screw ? If it be " well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new," it is particularly a prudent principle with regard to old and new years. For example, had this work been...

...likely to," I returned, haughtily. " There is some sensible advice in the old couplet, — 1 It's good to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.' " to ruffle me. O, if we could but be friends, patient, true, and tender ! For a moment I was tempted...

...is deepest, the grief is least profound. —DR. ISAAC BARROW. PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY. i. Is it " best to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new " ? 'Tis a story we've often been told, love — But I scarcely believe it : do you ? Suppose you were...

..." it is easy talking in that way to me, but I have somewhere heard an old song which says, ' It is well to be off with the old love before you are on with the new.' But since you wish it, I will try and VOL. III. I> turn my thoughts from you henceforth ; but I cannot...

...— " One love grows green as one grows grey." " As a rule, according to the old maxim, ' it is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new.' You have been quick in securing a successor to — your affections, shall we say ? or call it by some...

...performance. He had an ominous recollection of a rhyme that stated very distinctly that it is ; " best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new." He saw it was neces- , sary to bring matters to a crisis, and after some cogitation he saw his way...