But when Mrs.Pullet was alone with Mrs.Tulliver upstairs, the remarks were naturally to the disadvantage of Mrs.Glegg, and they agreed, in confidence, that there was no knowing what sort of fright sister Jane would come out next.

But their _tete-a-tete_ was curtailed by the appearance of Mrs.Deane with little Lucy; and Mrs.Tulliver had to look on with a silent pang while Lucy's blond curls were adjusted.

It was quite unaccountable that Mrs.Deane, the thinnest and sallowest of all the Miss Dodsons, should have had this child, who might have been taken for Mrs.Tulliver's any day.

And Maggie always looked twice as dark as usual when she was by the side of Lucy.
She did to-day, when she and Tom came in from the garden with their father and their uncle Glegg.

Maggie had thrown her bonnet off very carelessly, and coming in with her hair rough as well as out of curl, rushed at once to Lucy, who was standing by her mother's knee.
Certainly the contrast between the cousins was conspicuous, and to superficial eyes was very much to the disadvantage of Maggie though a connoisseur might have seen "points" in her which had a higher promise for maturity than Lucy's natty completeness.