The painful fact disclosed by Uncle Joseph, of their plebeian origin, and the marriage of Mr.
Armand--whose station in society was not to be questioned--with Mary Jones, the watchmaker's daughter, had softened and subdued their tone of feeling, and caused them to set up a new standard of estimation.

The old one would not do, for, judged by that, they would have to hide their diminished heads.

Their conduct at the Springs was far less objectionable than it had been heretofore, partaking of the modest and retiring in deportment, rather than the assuming, the arrogant, and the self-sufficient.

Mrs.Armand was there, with her sister, moving in the first circles; and Emily Ludlow and her sister Adeline felt honored rather than humiliated by an association with them.

It is to be hoped they will yet make sensible women.
THE WIFE.
"I AM hopeless!" said the young man, in a voice that was painfully desponding.