was meant but unfortunately the requisite time was not allowed her my daughter means was the girl observed mr to explain but with some impatience of manner poor mrs was more puzzled than ever she had got out of the fields only to find herself in a poultry yard h yes she was quite young observed the good lady confidently i can answer your question miss interposed the suspected bride i could see enough of the young lady to remark that she was far from distinguished looking indeed some people would call her your husband told me he i x a j oo a from a here mrs began to show her teeth to some purpose and would probably have said things had not mrs entered at that moment bearing in her instead of her dog as usual � an enormous book oh my she exclaimed excitedly what do you that mrs should have described the company as my was inexplicable but there are moments in human life when the of social prejudice are broken down and the heart claims the right to speak i have found it all out here is his name in black and white and she touched the volume she had just placed on the table with impressive reverence the name of the gentleman is and he is an honourable you don t say so i ejaculated mrs well i never i cried mrs not intending to convey a vulgar astonishment but only the simple fact that she had never happened to have seen an honourable before mrs regarded her for a moment with withering scorn and then opened the sacred volume this she said is the it is an old edition but that is of small consequence as one does not care for late of course not said mrs with magnificent contempt as though she was speaking of early dinners the word resumed mrs who only needed a glass of water to complete her resemblance to a public appears more than once in these pages but the point of difference is the � the family for example spell their name with a c only this information was hailed with quite a burst of satisfaction from all the ladies including even mrs she did not quite comprehend what the lecture was about but she thought it must be very convenient to any family to spell their name with a single letter the gentleman of whom we are speaking � and who is now staying at this hotel � is a of the house of the title of the eldest son is lord st she paused to allow these mighty names to have their full significance and also to mark their effect she enjoyed the of the situation exceedingly and to use a very because common expression her lips over it dear me exclaimed mrs settling the strings of her lace cap with nervous fingers pray go on here is the record continued mrs alluding to the volume with the same solemnity that a might treat the tables of the law earl of george � evidently a name as you will see � george francis of m sl also the ladies room baron in the of ireland lord lieutenant of of married lady daughter of the earl of and has issue � concluded mrs triumphantly as though in the case of a couple so distinguished such an event was almost more than could be looked charles st maria and � here we have him � george he was forty nine last september me exclaimed mrs with astonishment how in the world did you find that out if you had ever seen a returned mrs like a shocked missionary addressing the heathen you would know that the date of birth of every member of the aristocracy is inscribed in its pages that must be rather hard upon the ladies observed mrs who though to satire had a touch of simple about her unhappily in looking round for approbation of this stroke of humour her eye fell upon miss that that young lady would have liked to have had her name in the was certain yet that revelation as to age would in her case have been a serious she was standing not on the brink of the where womanhood and childhood meet but much lower down the river and she took poor mrs s observation as a personal one � all jokes are vulgar she observed but especially jokes upon a serious subject la miss the ain t the bible pleaded mrs the other ladies their lips and shook their heads in principle they felt they were right though in this particular case their might have the advantage of them i am afraid you are a special sighed mrs and all the other ladies sighed m sympathy like the question is she resumed with the air of one who for an important subject shall we have mr and miss at the table d why dear me how could we keep em out of it exclaimed mrs keep them out echoed mrs her fingers what extraordinary observations mrs you are making this evening i would dream � unless to be sure she added significantly one was an or a � of keeping them out what i meant to inquire was whether they would join the general table to night at all events since the young lady will be tired remarked mrs she is almost sure to have a that i think may he taken for granted x � she ia sure to dine with her pa at a e a from a thorn miss laughed and threw her head up � it was one of those few portions of her frame which her mode of dress left at her own disposal � in impatience and disdain like a horse what have i said now thought poor mrs to make that girl so angry my belief is that the strain 