"How Miss Sharp is awakened by my words, when not one of the people here is touched.

I am too fine for them--too delicate.

I must familiarise my style--but she understands it.

Her mother was a Montmorency." Indeed it was from this famous family, as it appears, that Miss Sharp, by the mother's side, was descended.

Of course she did not say that her mother had been on the stage; it would have shocked Mr.Crawley's religious scruples.