"Is the girl making fun of me ?" he thought, and straightway he bounced towards the bell, and was for retreating, as we have seen, when his father's jokes and his mother's entreaties caused him to pause and stay where he was.

He conducted the young lady down to dinner in a dubious and agitated frame of mind.

"Does she really think I am handsome ?" thought he, "or is she only making game of me ?" We have talked of Joseph Sedley being as vain as a girl.

Heaven help us! the girls have only to turn the tables, and say of one of their own sex, "She is as vain as a man," and they will have perfect reason.

The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilettes, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascination, as any coquette in the world.
Downstairs, then, they went, Joseph very red and blushing, Rebecca very modest, and holding her green eyes downwards.