You and your sister have quite a heavy task of distribution now.' Poor Rebecca felt it very hard to bear that Mr.Tryan did not turn towards her too.

If he knew how much she entered into his feelings about the lecture, and the interest she took in the library.

Well! perhaps it was her lot to be overlooked--and it might be a token of mercy.

Even a good man might not always know the heart that was most with him.

But the next moment poor Mary had a pang, when Mr.Tryan turned to Miss Eliza Pratt, and the preoccupied expression of his face melted into that beaming timidity with which a man almost always addresses a pretty woman.
'I have to thank you, too, Miss Eliza, for seconding me so well in your visits to Joseph Mercer.