She patted Isabel's cheek, and said, "Pooh! Pooh!" "Your Ladyship does not admire the beauties of Nature," Miss Pink remarked, with a compassionate smile.

"As we get older, no doubt our sight begins to fail--" "And we leave off canting about the beauties of Nature," added Lady Lydiard.

"I hate the country.

Give me London, and the pleasures of society." "Come! come! Do the country justice, Lady Lydiard!" put in peace-making Mr.Troy.

"There is plenty of society to be found out of London--as good society as the world can show." "The sort of society," added Miss Pink, "which is to be found, for example, in this neighborhood.