I adore your daughter--who could help!--but I cannot tell her unless you approve.

And so, madam," with a deepest of bows, "I, who am a Russian gentleman, come to you." Mrs.Hanway-Harley was not so sinuously adroit as her brother, Senator Hanway, but she was capable of every conventional art.

If Storri's declaration stirred her pride, she never showed it; if her soul exulted at a title in her family and a probable presentation of herself to royalty, she concealed it.

True, she was inclined to tilt her nose a vulgar bit; but she did not let Storri perceive it, reserving the nose-tilting for ladies of her acquaintance, when the betrothal of Dorothy and Storri should be announced.

Indeed, her conduct, on the honorable occasion of Storri's request, could not have been more graceful nor more guarded.