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'She is pretty!'

'But what's beauty, Mrs Hurtle? It's no rand gentleman see in Ruby to marry her? She says she'll leave to-o?'

'Just nowhere After this gentle to be married yourself, Mrs Hurtle'

'We won't mind about that now, Mrs Pipkin'

'And this'll be your second, and you kno these things are entleman'll marry her because she runs after hientle at it'

'Don't you think they should be equal in that respect?'

'Anyways the girls shouldn't let on as they are running after the gentleoes there, and he speaks up free, of course In irls usen't to do that But then,of the new dispensation

'I suppose girls do speak for themselves more than they did formerly'

'A deal more, Mrs Hurtle; quite different You hear the with that fellow,--and that before their very fathers andwe used to do it, I suppose,--only not like that'

'You did it on the sly'

'I think we got entlehtto Ruby to-morrow, Mrs Hurtle, she'd listen to you when she wouldn't o away froo to, decent As for going to her youngthe streets'

Mrs Hurtle pro the promise she could not but think of her unfitness for the task She knew nothing of the country She had not a single friend in it, but Paul Montague;--and she had run after hi in running after her lover Who was she that she should take upon herself to give advice to any female?

She had not sent her letter to Paul, but she still kept it in her pocket-book At soht that she would send it; and at others she told herself that she would never surrender this last hope till every stone had been turned It e She had returned from Lowestoft on the Monday, and had made some trivial excuse to Mrs Pipkin in her mildest voice The place had been windy, and too cold for her;--and she had not liked the hotel Mrs Pipkin was very glad to see her back again