"Now, it does become you, my dear.

Doesn't it, ma'am ?" turning to the mother.

"Well, now, I never noticed it before, but Miss Matty has a great look of Lady Georgiana.

Remarkable likeness! You wouldn't be known from her, miss when you had that dress on.

Their eyes! the complexion! the figure! all ditto, ditto, ditto." The girls smiled; but what amount of flattery will not one accept when judiciously offered?
They were all pleased to hear Mrs.Middlemass compare one of their number to Lady Georgiana, although they knew perfectly that the pedler had never in the whole course of her life even spoken to that young lady, who was a head and shoulders taller than Matty, and as unlike her in all particulars as a girl could be.
"There!" said the pedler.