I quite agree with your mother and Aunt Sally that she is an exceedingly fine girl." "She certainly discouraged me a good deal about college.

Four years of school after you're seventeen or eighteen! Not for Marian!" and she shook her head drolly.
Bassett was either absorbed in thought or he chose to ignore Marian's remark.

He was silent for some time, and the girl went on banteringly with Harwood.

She availed herself of all those immunities and privileges which the gods confer upon young women whom they endow with good looks.

In the half-freedom of the past year she had bought her own clothes, with only the nominal supervision of Miss Waring's assistant; and in her new spring raiment she was very much the young lady, and decidedly a modish one.