But I took to Miss West, and an orphan and all, with all that money, poor thing!" "She has no style," said Selina, "but she has a nice face; and she's coming to stay with Sibbie Loftus next week, when she leaves Vi Newhaven.

She may be Birmingham, Ada, but she's just as thick with county people as we are." "I did not rightly make out," said Mrs.Pratt, reflectively, "whether that tall gentleman, Mr.Vernon, was after Miss West or Hessie Gresley." "Oh, ma! You always think some one's after somebody else," said Ada, impatiently, whose high breeding obliged her to be rather peremptory with her simple parent.

"Mr.Vernon is a pauper, and so is Hessie.

And, besides, Hessie is not the kind of girl anybody would want to marry." "Well, I'm not so sure of that," said Selina.

"But if she had had any chances I know she would have told me, because I told her all about Captain Cobbett and Mr.Baxter.".