The disagreeable effect of these lineaments was heightened by a long scar over her right temple; she evidently did her best to conceal it by letting her hair come forward very much on each side, an arrangement in itself unsuited to her countenance.
"I think I'm going to leave my place," was her first remark to-day, as they turned to walk westward.

She spoke in a dogged way with which Julian was familiar enough, holding her eyes down, and, as she walked, swinging her arms impatiently.
"I hope not," said her cousin, looking at her anxiously.

"What has happened ?" "Oh, I don't know; it's always the same; people treat you as if you was so much dirt.

I haven't been accustomed to it, and I don't see why I should begin now.

I can soon enough get a new shop." "Has Mrs.Ogle been unkind to you ?" "Oh, I don't know, and I don't much care.