...the rest. Why not ? ' ' Well,' Anstruther answered, ' at any rate no one can accuse you of not being off with the old love before you are on with the new.' ' Love ? ' cried the other ; ' it was only this morning on the lawn that I found out what it meant....

...saucy glance at Mr. St. John, she sang out, in her clear, rich voice, to a tune of her own, " It is well to be off with the old love, Before you are on •with the new." Adeline rose, and passed quietly into the drawing-room, her step self-possessed, her bearing calm :...

...usual. And so the days wore on one by one, one by one. There is an old adage which says — " 'Tis good to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." But Basil Brooke thought that it is better still to keep on with both until you see which is likely...

...XXXI. A DEFAULTER. ' It is best to l>c merry and wise ; It is best to be honest and true ; It is best to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.' LORD HARLECH was a little surprised when Claude came into his bedroom before dinner, and after wandering...

...fast and loose with each accordingly. The old adage is certainly verified in her case, that it is good to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new, for she gets into trouble on all sides, viz., her irate parents, indignant partially-discarded lover,...

...sometimes. And her mother was consumptive." " It's the worst policy in the world," said Colonel Wilton, " to be off with the old love before you are on with the new. Of course, it's quite right afterwards; but before, when nobody knows what may happen ! I have always...

...with which our literature abounds — such as "The course of true love never did run smooth; "Always be off with the old love before you are on with the new, &c., &c." Luck is not to be found in wasting, nay, even worse than wasting, your precious time in the...

...for me till a quarter past eleven." The Reverend Mr. Severin said, in a loud whisper, to Cornelia, " 'Tis well to be off with the old love before you are on with the new ;" and Miss FitzHenry reddened up to the roots of her hair. " Mrs. Larpent is waiting for you, sir."...

...salutation that she formally returned, he sullenly walked off towards the breakfastroom. ' It's best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new ; eh, Margaret ? ' and Margaret, starting, turned round, to face her father. He met her questioning...

...had taken that day. ' ' ' "Tis good to be merry and wise, "Pis 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...