He does think so well of himself, and quite rules every one at home.' 'Oh! that is very fatiguing, I should think.' 'I wish he would fall in love with Miss Nugent, and she with him, and carry off her forty-thousand pounds.

She is silly enough for anything, and it would be such a downfall to her mother's pride.' 'Her mother is much too careful, my dear, and by far too superior a woman.

And Miss Wilhelmina is very accomplished and all that sort of thing, you know, and likely to make a fine match.

She is very pretty, too.' 'Yes; she and Netta Prothero would run in harness.

Pretty, silly, rather affected, and having drawn each four or five drawings, and learnt six tunes on the piano.