Why not ?--his heart was evidently much more interested in her pursuits than in her niece's.

The juvenility of him was catching, if it was indeed the man, and not one of the actor's properties.

Mrs.Lackstraw thought it prudent to hint at the latter idea to Jane while she decided in her generosity to embrace the former.

Oh! if all Irishmen shared his taste for sweet water, pure milk and wholesome bread, what a true Union we should have! She had always insisted on those three things as most to be desired on earth for the masses, and she reminded Jane of it as a curious fact.

Jane acquiesced, having always considered it a curious fact that her aunt should combine the relish of a country life with the intensest social ambition--a passion so sensitive as to make the name her husband had inflicted on her a pain and a burden.