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Old provincial society had its share of this subtledownfalls, its brilliant young professional dandies

who ended by living up an entry with a drab and six children for their

establishment, but also those lessthe boundaries of social intercourse, and begetting

new consciousness of interdependence So: people denied aspirates, gained wealth, and

fastidious gentleht in political

currents, some in ecclesiastical, and perhaps found therouped in consequence; while a few personages or families

that stood with rocky fir new aspects in spite of solidity, and altering with the

double change of self and beholder Municipal town and rural parish

gradually radually, as the old

stocking gave way to the savings-bank, and the worship of the solar

guinea became extinct; while squires and baronets, and even lords who

had once lived blaathered the

faultiness of closer acquaintanceship Settlers, too, ca novelty of skill, others with

an offensive advantage in cunning In fact, much the saland as we find in older

Herodotus, who also, in telling what had been, thought it well to take

a woh Io, as a uiled by attractive merchandise, was the reverse of Miss Brooke, and

in this respect perhaps bore more resemblance to Rosamond Vincy, who

had excellent taste in costuive the largest range to choice in the flow and color

of drapery But these things made only part of her charm She was

admitted to be the flower of Mrs Lemon's school, the chief school in

the county, where the teaching included all that was demanded in the

acco in and out of

a carriage Mrs Lemon herself had always held up Miss Vincy as an

exa lady for mental

acquisition and propriety of speech, while her musical execution was

quite exceptional We cannot help the way in which people speak of us,

and probably if Mrs Leen,

these heroines would not have seemed poetical The first vision of

Rosaes to dispel any

prejudice excited by Mrs Le in Middlereeable