You must take them up to some trustworthy jeweller, and have them thoroughly looked over." "I suppose the second son was specially mentioned, Middleton ?" said Charles, as I drew back to let the rest handle and admire.
"Of course!" said Lady Mary, sharply; "and a very fortunate thing, too." "Very--for Ralph," he replied.

"It is really providential that I am what I am.

Why, I might have ruined the dear boy's prospects if I had paid my tailor's bill, and lived in the country among the buttercups and daisies.

Ah! my dear aunt, I see you are about to remark how all things here below work together for good!" "I was not going to remark anything of the kind," retorted Lady Mary, drawing herself up; "but," she added, spitefully, "I do not feel the less rejoiced at Ralph's good fortune and prosperity when I see, as I so often do, the ungodly flourishing like a green bay-tree." "Of course," said Charles, shaking his head, "if that is your own experience, I bow before it; but for my own part, I must confess I have not found it so.

Flourish like a green bay-tree! No, Aunt Mary, it is a fallacy; they don't: I am sure I only wish they did.