I don't know what it is, but I dare say she inherited it from her father.

The Governor may be unsound in his views and uncertain in his methods, but I've yet to see any one who could resist his smile." "The Judge admires him," remarked Stephen, with the air of a man who tosses a bomb into a legislative assembly.
"Oh, Stephen," protested Victoria on a high note of interrogation, "how can he ?" "The Judge likes to keep up well with the times," observed Mr.Culpeper, whose final argument against any innovation was the inquiry, "What do you suppose General Lee would have thought of it ?" Pausing an instant while the family hung breathlessly on his words, he continued heroically: "Now, it doesn't bother me to be called an old fogy." "There's no use trying to hide the fact that the Judge isn't quite what he used to be," said Mrs.Culpeper in an unusually tolerant tone.

"He has let his habit of joking grow on him until you never know whether he is serious or simply poking fun at you." "The next thing we hear," suggested Peyton, who was quite dreadful at times, "will be that the old gentleman admires the daughter also." "He doesn't like conspicuous women," rejoined Victoria.

"He told me so only the other day when Mrs.Bradford announced that she was going to run for the legislature." "That's the kind of conspicuousness we all object to," commented Peyton; "Patty Vetch isn't that sort." Janet was more merciful.

"Well, you are obliged to be conspicuous to-day if you want anybody to notice you," she said.