the d a very person indeed and of considerable talent he must take your daughter s portrait he took mine and was it like inquired mr regarding the original with the most unmistakable interest and admiration i think it is said mrs modestly casting down her eyes the professor thinks there is something wanting in the expression � a lack of dignity and command he would miss that if it wasn t there observed mr gravely mr has failed to catch the characteristics he should as i tell him confine himself entirely to portrait painting as it is he does also a jack of all trades as i ventured to remind him is master of none but his advice will doubtless be useful to you miss � if i caught your name correctly my dear she added turning to the young lady my father calls me said the girl significantly and with the least tinge of a flush just so it is a very pretty name probably a family one is it not so no it is not madam returned mr with a that was almost ferocity none of my family have ever been so called before even by their own relatives his manner was at once frost and fire and the sting of his last sentence would have been felt by most people like the lash of a mrs however was even more mistress of herself than of other people she would take no when not inclined to do so even though you put it in her hand and doubled her fingers over it now that s curious she observed quietly however you may have plenty of among you yet even the french began somewhere the names in families always interest me now there s the � bride and bridegroom we think but you will judge for yourself � nothing will ever persuade me that they have any right to that name one has heard or before and also of s wife observed mr he had by this time recovered his but the effects of the storm were still apparent it is not the my dear sir it is the with the that i object to he looks to me much more like a peter permit me to madam that i om vi c a ome persons would even say o i i a from a no doubt but not to aristocracy � a the point she s as close as wax and very cunning but i shall find out all about them some day including the they try to pass themselves off as an old married couple but mrs she heard her ask her husband at breakfast whether he took and sugar that s you know true indeed the gentleman s tastes were very gentlemen s tastes don t change about those sort of things observed mrs with a drop in her voice and a significant in her left eye we know better than that mr bowed in acknowledgment of the confidence thus in him and also because he could not trust himself to speak the rapidity with which the lady made her advances his very i saw a very nice looking old couple in the garden this morning observed � perceiving the necessity of her father s embarrassment though ignorant of its cause � of the name as i understood of oh you mustn t know returned mrs hastily indeed if you had not mentioned them i should have ignored their existence as the professor would say they don t move in the same plane with us at all dear me murmured mr that s very clever of them have they an of their own then i don t know about that said mrs doubtfully and rather that she had handled a scientific weapon even in the way of they have a farm in he is always speaking about the cows that looks as if he wanted to buy them observed mr perhaps that is i don t think so they have come to recover themselves from a domestic loss a cow no no a child of course they have a legal right to stay here but it is very of them they have not been accustomed to society and have not the art to conceal it mrs told me that she had often butter with her own hands that again was very clever of her observed mr well of course she used a machine but the idea of a lady butter i have done it said simply we had a at our school at and we thought it the greatest treat to be to oh at i answered mrs shaking her that s quite another thing and so i dare say was the butter remarked mr continued his visitor a � the map of the country may do a to amuse herself such as this drawing for instance but she would never think of getting any money for it one hopes a very just observation madam observed mr i certainly never thought of getting any money for that drawing said good and i am afraid no one would ever think of giving it f course not said mrs that would be too ridiculous it is only a man like mr who does not see that he says the sole difference between the amateur and the professional is that the work of one is inferior to that of the other he told me once that a country gentleman was only a whereupon i ventured to remark that such opinions were and that he was an and is mr inquired mr an old indian heavens and apparently in his war paint nay i mean a retired indian he is said to have heaps and heaps of indeed then i suppose he married a very likely in my opinion he would stick at nothing he has got rid of her however somehow j he is a with but one 