I have not many very dear friends." "I mean the Gazebees.

I have heard Mortimer Gazebee and Lady Amelia speak of you." Whereupon Lady Julia confessed that she did know the Gazebees.

Mr Gazebee, she said, was a man who in early life had wanted many advantages, but still he was a very estimable person.

He was now in Parliament, and she understood that he was making himself useful.

She had not quite approved of Lady Amelia's marriage at the time, and so she had told her very old friend Lady de Courcy; but-- And then Lady Julia said many words in praise of Mr Gazebee, which seemed to amount to this; that he was an excellent sort of man, with a full conviction of the too great honour done to him by the earl's daughter who had married him, and a complete consciousness that even that marriage had not put him on a par with his wife's relations, or even with his wife.