I would advise you to turn to the thirteenth of First Corinthians, and see for yourself how excellent a gift is charity--the greatest of all, according to our dear Saint Paul." Elisabeth sighed.

She had long ago become acquainted with Mrs.Herbert's custom of keeping religion as a thing apart, and of treating it from an "in-another-department-if-you-please" point of view; and she felt that Tremaine's open agnosticism was almost better--and certainly more sincere--than this.
But Mrs.Herbert was utterly unconscious of any secret fault on her own part, and continued to purr contentedly to herself.

"Felicia, dear child! will certainly take an excellent position.

She will be in county society, the very thing which I have always desired for her; and she will enter it, not on sufferance, but as one of themselves.

I can not tell you what a pleasure it is to Mr.Herbert and myself to think of our beloved daughter as a regular county lady; it quite makes up for all the little self-denials that we suffered in order to give her a good education and to render her fit to take her place in society.