I assure you once more, her own words.) 'But don't trespass too far on my indulgence--don't insinuate again that a woman who is good enough (if she died this night) to go to heaven, is _not_ good enough to be my nephew's wife.' "I expressed to you my conviction a little way back that it was doubtful whether poor Lady Janet would be much longer competent to manage her own affairs.

Perhaps you thought me hasty then?
What do you think now?
"It was, of course, useless to reply seriously to the extraordinary reprimand that I had received.

Besides, I was really shocked by a decay of principle which proceeded but too plainly from decay of the mental powers.

I made a soothing and respectful reply, and I was favored in return with some account of what had really happened at the Refuge.

My mother and my sisters were disgusted when I repeated the particulars to them.