She is excessively proud, and thinks herself good enough to occupy the highest station in the world; but she knows that her mother talks nonsense, and that even a beautiful girl may look awkward in making unsuccessful advances.

So she remains superbly indifferent, and lets her mother take the risks.

If the prince is secured, so much the better; if he is not, she need never confess to herself that even a prince has slighted her." "Your report is as solid," Rowland said to Madame Grandoni, thanking her, "as if it had been prepared for the Academy of Sciences;" and he congratulated himself on having listened to it when, a couple of days later, Mrs.Light and her daughter, attended by the Cavaliere and the poodle, came to his rooms to look at Roderick's statues.

It was more comfortable to know just with whom he was dealing.
Mrs.Light was prodigiously gracious, and showered down compliments not only on the statues, but on all his possessions.

"Upon my word," she said, "you men know how to make yourselves comfortable.