So I said, in a graver manner than any of us had yet assumed: 'She is as virtuous as she is pretty.

She is engaged to be married to a most worthy and deserving man in her own station of life.

I esteem her for her good sense, as much as I admire her for her good looks.' 'Well said!' cried Steerforth.

'Hear, hear, hear! Now I'll quench the curiosity of this little Fatima, my dear Daisy, by leaving her nothing to guess at.

She is at present apprenticed, Miss Mowcher, or articled, or whatever it may be, to Omer and Joram, Haberdashers, Milliners, and so forth, in this town.