Mrs.Pole would have said a word of her teeth also, but that to her they had never been made visible.

"But they do say that she is the cleverest of them all," Mrs.Pole had added, very properly.

The people of Exeter had expressed such an opinion, and had been quite just in doing so.

I do not know how it happens, but it always does happen, that everybody in every small town knows which is the brightest-witted in every family.

In this respect Mrs.Pole had only expressed public opinion, and public opinion was right.