But she carries her head with a statelier air than is becoming Squire Floyd's daughter; and I am very sure, that, as the wife of Ralph Dewey, she has acquired no special consequence.

Rich jewelry may be very well in city drawing-rooms, and public assemblages, where dress is made conspicuous.

But to sport diamond ear-rings and breastpin, splendid enough for a countess, in her father's little parlor, and before the eyes of friends who loved her once for herself alone, savored so strongly of weak pride and vanity, that I could not look upon her with any of my old feelings.

It was Delia Floyd no longer.

Already, the pure, sweet, artless maiden, had changed into a woman of the world, dressed up for show.