All the female society she has ever seen, before Mrs.Buckley and your sister came here, was of a rank inferior to herself, and she has taken her impressions from that society to a great extent.

But still she is a lady; compare her to any of the other girls in the parish, and you will see the difference." "Yes, yes, that is true," said the Vicar.

"You must think me a strange man to speak so plainly about my own daughter, Doctor, and to you, too, whom I have known so short a time.

But one must confide in somebody, and I have seen your discretion manifested so often that I trust you." They had arrived opposite the Vicar's gate, but the Doctor, resisting all the Vicar's offers of breakfast, declined to go in.

He walked homeward toward his cottage-lodgings, and as he went he mused to himself somewhat in this style,-- "What a good old man that is.