If you are to succeed in life, as we, your friends, can conscientiously say that we most earnestly hope and trust you will do, you must be on good terms with Society.

You must! You pledge your word to a piece of folly.

Emancipate yourself from it as quickly as possible.

Do you see?
This is foolish: it, therefore, cannot be.

Decide, as a sensible creature." At the close of this harangue, Cornelia, who had stooped slightly to deliver it, regained her stately posture, beautified in Mr.Barrett's sight by the flush which an unwonted exercise in speech had thrown upon her cheeks.
Emilia stood blinking like one sensible of having been chidden in a strange tongue.
"Does it offend you--my going ?" she faltered.
"Offend!--our concern is entirely for you," observed Cornelia.
The explanation drew out a happy sparkle from Emilia's eyes.