"She is a singularly pretty and graceful child; but it will certainly cause remark." "Well, mother, you can easily say, what is really the fact, that you naturally felt an interest in her because I picked her out of the water.

Besides, if people make remarks they will soon be tired of that; and if not, I can get into some scrape or other and give them something else to talk about." Accordingly, when Sergeant Wilks called on Monday morning for his answer, Mrs.Walsham told him that she had decided to accept his offer.
"You are aware how I am placed," she said, "and that I cannot give her the care and time which I could wish, and which she ought to have for such a liberal payment as you propose; but you know that beforehand, and you see that for two years' payments I could not sacrifice my school connection, which I should have to do if I gave her the time I should wish." "I understand, madam," he said, "and I am grateful to you for consenting to take her.

She is getting too old now to wander about with me, and since the narrow escape she had, last time I was here, I have felt anxious whenever she was out of my sight.

It would not suit me to put her in a farm house.

I want her to learn to speak nicely, and I have done my best to teach her; but if she went to a farm house she would be picking up all sorts of country words, and I want her to talk like a little lady.
"So that is settled, ma'm.