Not so her father.
"If there's anything in looks, you seem to be prospering," he said grimly; "unless you're in the tailorin' line, and you're only showin' off stock.

What mout ye be doing ?" "Ye ain't bin long in Sacramento, I reckon ?" suggested Jim, with patronizing pity.
"No, we only came this morning," returned Hopkins.
"And you ain't bin to the theatre ?" continued Jim.
"No." "Nor moved much in--in--gin'ral fash'nable sassiety ?" "Not yet," interposed Phoebe, with an air of faint apology.
"Nor seen any of them large posters on the fences, of 'The Prairie Flower; or, Red-handed Dick,'-- three-act play with five tableaux,--just the biggest sensation out,--runnin' for forty nights,--money turned away every night,--standin' room only ?" continued Jim, with prolonged toleration.
"No." "Well, I play Red-handed Dick.

I thought you might have seen it and recognized me.

All those people over there," darkly indicating the long table, "know me.

A fellow can't stand it, you know, being stared at by such a vulgar, low-bred lot.