That carried him up several degrees in every one's esteem.

In his own, too, I confess.
As for Prudy, the girls could not help seeing she had no style; but the boys liked her, for all that.

If they had only known what their hostess thought, there would have been some surprise.
"These little misses look to me like bonnet flowers made out of book-muslin.

Prudy, now, is a genuine, fresh moss rose bud.

There is no comparison, you dear little Prudy, between artificial and natural flowers!" Mrs.Pragoff was called a "finished lady." She was acquainted with some of the best people in Europe and America.