Page 163 (1/2)

"I should say the preference lies with you," responded Colonel Dent

"On ed to you," was the reply

Miss Ingrarace at the

piano, spreading out her snowy robes in queenly a ht; both her words and her air seemed intended to

excite not only the admiration, but the a the indeed

"Oh, I aaway at the instrus, not fit

to stir a step beyond papa's park gates: nor to go even so far

without uardianship! Creatures so absorbed

in care about their pretty faces, and their white hands, and their

s to do with beauty! As if

loveliness were not the special prerogative of woly WOMAN is a blot on the fair

face of creation; but as to the GENTLEMEN, let theth and valour: let their ht: the rest is not worth a fillip Such should be my

device, were I a man"

"Whenever I marry," she continued after a pause which none

interrupted, "I am resolved my husband shall not be a rival, but a

foil to me I will suffer no coe: his devotions shall not be shared