"Why are you not helping them," she went on; "you who have the clearest head among us and take the lead in everything ?" It may be a humiliating confession to make, yet it is surely true that we are all accessible to flattery.

Different tastes appreciate different methods of burning incense--but the perfume is more or less agreeable to all varieties of noses.

Francine's method had its tranquilizing effect on Emily.

She answered indulgently, "Miss de Sor, I have nothing to do with it." "Nothing to do with it?
No prizes to win before you leave school ?" "I won all the prizes years ago." "But there are recitations.

Surely you recite ?" Harmless words in themselves, pursuing the same smooth course of flattery as before--but with what a different result! Emily's face reddened with anger the moment they were spoken.