"Go and look for it, my dear." "You really should check Magdalen," pleaded Mrs.Vanstone, addressing her husband when her daughter had left the room.

"Those habits of mimicry are growing on her; and she speaks to you with a levity which it is positively shocking to hear." "Exactly what I have said myself, till I am tired of repeating it," remarked Miss Garth.

"She treats Mr.Vanstone as if he was a kind of younger brother of hers." "You are kind to us in everything else, papa; and you make kind allowances for Magdalen's high spirits--don't you ?" said the quiet Norah, taking her father's part and her sister's with so little show of resolution on the surface that few observers would have been sharp enough to detect the genuine substance beneath it.
"Thank you, my dear," said good-natured Mr.Vanstone.

"Thank you for a very pretty speech.

As for Magdalen," he continued, addressing his wife and Miss Garth, "she's an unbroken filly.