As to companionship, I do not see that she is less worthy now than she was a year ago." "You talk strangely, Edward," said Mrs.Freeman, in a tone of dissent.
"In what way, sister ?" "There has been a very great change in a year.

Jessie's family no longer moves in our circle." "True; but is Jessie any the less worthy to sit in your parlour than she was then ?" "_I_ think so, and that must decide the matter," returned Mrs.Freeman, evincing some temper.
The old gentleman said no more; but Fanny remarked--"I was not in favour of taking Jessie, for I knew how it would be; but Mrs.Carlton recommended her so highly, and said so much in her favour, that no room was left for a refusal.

As for Jessie herself, I have no particular objection to her; but the fact of her having once moved in the circle we are in is against her; for it leaves room for her to step beyond her place, as she has already done, and puts upon us the unpleasant necessity of reminding her of her error." "It don't seem to me," remarked Mr.Freeman, who had till now said nothing, "that Miss Hampton was doing any thing worthy of reproof.

She has been well raised, we know; is an educated, refined, and intelligent girl, and, therefore, has nothing about her to create repugnance or to make her presence disagreeable.

It would be better, perhaps, if we looked more to what persons are, than to things merely external." "It is all very well to talk in that way," said Mrs.Freeman.