i d em and go to better families who do want you ah yes but could never put up with the of being welcomed among such people as you mean while i could get indifference among such people as t what crazy twist o thinking wool come to l s bis mother and come to that she s not a a xx oo v a pair of blue eyes for you or you too low for her see how careful i be to keep myself up i m sure i never stop for more than a minute together to talk to any s people and i never invite anybody to our party o who in business for themselves and i talk to several carriage people that come to my lord s without saying or sir to em and they take it as quiet as you to the mother and i wish you hadn t but it was before he called me by my christian name or he would have got very little from me said mrs smith and sparkling with vexation you go on at me as if i were your worst enemy what else could i do wi the man to get rid of him it into me and your father by side and by about what happened when he was a young fellow at college and i don t know what all the tongue o en round his mouth like a rag round a that a did didn the john that s about the size o t replied her husband every woman now a days resumed mrs smith if she marry at all must expect a father in law of a rank lower than her father the men have gone up so and the women have stood still every man you meet is more the than his father and you are just level wi her that s what she thinks herself it only shows her sense i knew she was after ye after me good gracious what next and i really must say again that you ought not to be in such a hurry and wai for a few years you might go higher still then the fact is mother said impatiently you don t know anything about it i shall never go higher because i don t want to nor should i if i lived to be a hundred as to you saying that she s after me i don t like such a remark about her for it a woman and a man worth for both of which are not only but oi iv s case isn t it so father a pair of blue eyes i i m i don t understand the matter well enough to my opinion said his father in the tone of the fox who had a cold and could not smell she couldn t have been very backward anyhow considering the short time you have known her said his mother well i think that five years hence be plenty young enough to think of such things and really she can very well afford to wait and will too take my word living down in an out step place like this i am sure she ought to be very thankful that you took notice of her she d most likely have died an old maid if you hadn t turned lip all nonsense said but not aloud a nice little thing she is mrs smith went on in a more tone now that had been talked down there s not a word to say against her i ll own i see her sometimes out like a horse going to fair i admire her for t a perfect little lady but people can t help their thoughts and if she d learnt to make figures instead of letters when she was at school have been better for her pocket for as i said there never were worse times for such as she than now now now mother said with smiling but t will said his mother with i don t read the papers for nothing and i know men all move up a stage by marriage men of her class that is marry daughters marry lords daughters lords marry daughters marry queens daughters all stages of gentlemen mate a stage higher and the lowest stage of are left single or marry out of their class but you said just now dear mamma � retorted unable to resist the temptation of showing his mother her then he paused well what did i say and mrs smith prepared her for a new campaign that he had begun since a vol � might be the consequence was obliged to o you said i wasn t out of her class a r yes there there i that s you � j xv a pair of blue eyes and blood til warrant that you ll pick holes in everything your mother says if you can you are just like your father for that take anybody s part but mine while i am speaking and talking and trying and away for your good you are waiting to catch me out in that way so you are in her class but tis what her people would call marrying out of her class don t be so preserved a discreet silence in which he was by his father and for several minutes nothing was heard but the of the green faced case clock against the wall i m sure added mrs smith in a more philosophic tone and as a speech if there d been so much trouble to get a husband in my time as there is in these days � when you must make a god a mighty of a man to get en to ye � i d have eat dirt wi a before i d ever have lowered my dignity to marry or there s no 