"There are several of the girls far prettier.

As for being tall, it is no pleasure.
I would much rather be little." "Your skirts will always cost you more than other girls'." "It is only because they are so kind and generous that they think well of me," Mary went on.

"And, oh! I do hope that Jessie will win the fellowship.

Everyone does, even----" "Even her opponents," the old lady said, drily.

It was always Lady Anne's way to seem cynical over things, even with those she loved best.
"She has worked so hard for it," said Mary, "and Alice Egerton, who is in the running, too, has shaken hands with Jessie, and told her that if she wins it will only prove she is the better man." "Dear me, we are cultivating the manly virtues, too," said Lady Anne.
"Let me see: there are twenty young ladies in your class, and not a spiteful one among them.