O, it was only her hair the country child called horrid! After this she actually allowed Dotty to sit beside her on the sofa, and look at the fan which Mrs.Pragoff said Marie Antoinette had once owned.

Miss Dimple was remarkably polite and reserved.
"Safe as long as she stays in a corner," thought Horace; and he took care to keep her supplied with books and pictures.
He enjoyed the party, not being overawed, as poor Prudy was.

Wasn't he as good as any of them?
Better than most, for he didn't have to use an eye-glass.

"These fellows are got up cheap.

What do hair-oil and perfumery amount to ?" The boys, in their turn, looked at Horace, and decided he was "backwoodsy." Nobody who sported a silver watch could belong to the "first circles." However, when he allowed himself to be "Knight of the Whistle," and hunted for the enchanted thing which everybody was blowing, and found at last it was dangling down his own back from a string, and they were all laughing at him, he was manly enough not to get vexed.