I am only thirty-eight." "She married so young," said Mrs.Carr mournfully.

"I hope none of your girls will marry young, Jane.

Gabriella must be a warning to them and to clear little Fanny." "But you married young, mother, and so did I," replied Jane, a trifle tartly.
For some incommunicable reason Jane's sweetness had become decidedly prickly.

Charley's reformation had left her with the hurt and incredulous air of a missionary whose heathen have been converted under his eyes by a rival denomination: and obeying an entirely natural impulse, she appeared ever so slightly, and in the most refined manner possible to revenge herself on the other members of her family.

Though she had of late devoted her attention to the Associated Charities and the Confederate Museum, neither of these worthy objects provided so agreeable an opportunity for the exercise of her benevolent instincts as did the presence of a wayward husband in the household.