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And Miss Elton! She hated Miss Elton for that irritating cals of life She hated with a

hate that tingled her spine and shook her srit her teeth as she thought of the unconscious

girl now going to bed in the next rooet even with her so of things a little, and I'll show her!" Miss Quincy was

conscious that though she as yet lacked knowledge of their world, she

had the advantage of the inheritance of guile

But things! things! things! Lena thought a little of the irony of

it--that all her life she had pined to be set in luxury, and yet now and

here the very rugs and chairs and soft lights, the pictures of

unrecognized subjects, the unfamiliar delicacies before her at the

table, all seenificance by their

importance and expensiveness They were her masters still

But it was not Lena's way to waste her time on abstractions While she