"You are addressing Mr.
Vanstone's governess." The persuasive man fell back a step--admired Mr.Vanstone's governess--advanced a step again--and continued the conversation.
"And the two young ladies," he went on, "the two young ladies who were walking with you are doubtless Mr.Vanstone's daughters?
I recognized the darker of the two, and the elder as I apprehend, by her likeness to her handsome mother.

The younger lady--" "You are acquainted with Mrs.Vanstone, I suppose ?" said Miss Garth, interrupting the stranger's flow of language, which, all things considered, was beginning, in her opinion, to flow rather freely.

The stranger acknowledged the interruption by one of his polite bows, and submerged Miss Garth in his next sentence as if nothing had happened.
"The younger lady," he proceeded, "takes after her father, I presume?
I assure you, her face struck me.

Looking at it with my friendly interest in the family, I thought it very remarkable.

I said to myself--Charming, Characteristic, Memorable.