So of course I gave him what he suggested, a check for two hundred pounds.

No one, he added with true feeling, would grudge a single dollar that had been spent upon the education of the dear girl; and this went to my heart." "She is well educated, then ?" "She sings well," he says, "and has had a good plain education.

He said I might rest assured that she was ladylike, because she had been brought up among his own friends." "That is a very safe guarantee," said Arnold, laughing.

"I wonder if she is pretty ?" "I asked him that question too, and he replied very oddly that she had a most splendid figure, which fetched everybody.

Is not that rather a vulgar expression ?" "It is, in England.