The boy is more rebellious than usual; he presently drums with his feet, and even begins to whistle, very low, a popular air.

His sister looks at him, first with astonished reproach, then in dread.
_Satis superque_.

Again and again Miriam revived these images of the past.

And the more she thought of herself as a child, the less was she pleased with what her memory presented.

How many instances came back to her of hypocrisy before her father or mother, hypocrisy which, strangely enough, she at the time believed a merit, though perfectly aware of her own insincerity! How many a time had she suffered from the restraints imposed upon her, and then secretly allowed herself indulgences, and then again persuaded herself that by severe attention to formalities she blotted out her sin! But the worst was when Cecily Doran came to live in the house.