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"Come, come, Arenta! I shall be indeed astonished if you did not say one or two provoking words"
"I said only three, Cornelia When o home,' I did answer, as sweetly as possible, 'Thank you,politeness"
Cornelia was tying the scarlet ribbon which held back her flowing hair, but she turned and looked at Arenta, and asked, "Did madame boast any afterwards?"
"No; she went away very ry surprise on her face Gertrude Kippon a countess! Only iine it! Well, then, I have no doubt the Frenchman will -rooms, and even our streets, are full of titles," said Cornelia; "I think it is a distinction to be plain master and mistress"
"That is the truth; even this handsome dandy, Joris Hyde, is a lieutenant"
"He was in the field two years He told me so this afternoon I dare say, he has earned his title, even if he is a lieutenant"
"Don't be so highty-tighty, Cornelia I have no objections to ; for they at least iht if his country will find hiht in In fact, I rather lean to official titles of every kind"
"I have not thought of them at all"
"But I have They affect me like the feathers in a cock's tail; of course the bird would be as good without thehed mirthfully at her supposition "As for women," she continued, "lady, or countess, or Marquise, what an air it gives! It finishes a woht to have a title--I mean every woman of respectability I have a fancy to be a h I have heard that there is a title in the Hyde fa about everybody Lieutenant Hyde! I do wonder what he is co for!"
The words dropped slowly, one by one, from her lips; and with a kind of fateful inificance of the inquiry Both were too intent on those last little touches to the toilet, which make its effectiveness, to take into consideration reflections without form; and probably, at that tied her ringlets, tied her sash, and her sandals, began to talk of her own affairs; for she was a young lady who found it impossible to be sufficient for herself There had been trouble with the slaves in the Van Ariens' household, and she told Cornelia every particular Also, she had VERY NEAR had an offer of e Van Berckel; and she went into explanations about her diplo it