That such a man should be at the same time fond of Flora Saunt attested, as the phrase in the first volume of Gibbon has it, the variety of his inclinations.

I was soon to learn that he was fonder of her than of all the other things together.

Betty, one of five and with views above her station, was at any rate felt at home to have dished herself by her perversity.

Of course no one had looked at her since and no one would ever look at her again.

It would be eminently desirable that Flora should learn the lesson of Betty's fate.
I was not struck, I confess, with all this in my mind, by any symptom on our young lady's part of that sort of meditation.