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"Because"--her face shrewd and wilful as it had been sorrowful just

now--"I am by no means certain that I can do better than to(so people say!), well-born,

gentlees, you see! I o further, and fare veryat sunsets and

walking in the ht, you know It is not every woht to select and to woo

is usurped by the masculine portion of the community, it must,

perforce, be Hobson's choice with an uncountable majority of

feminines I should not coht hold a worse-conditioned ani swain"

"What a wicked rattle you are!" Mabel said, affecting to box her

ears "I could not love you if I believed you to be in earnest As

to your figure of the stabled steed--this disapproving customer has

the consolation that she need not accept him, unless she wishes to

do so She has the invaluable privilege of saying 'no' as often and

obstinately as she pleases"

"I deny it," said Rosa, perversely "Parents, in this age, do not

hters in nunneries or

garrets until they consent to wed Baron Buncombe or my Lord Nozoo,

but there are, nevertheless, coes in plenty Society