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"Hoity-toity! What means this heat,you, as a kindness, e should have thought becoard even to a blood relation of our own"

"Thank you, ma'ae, that the cases are not alike"

She said it in all simplicity, and did not perceive, at first, why the two sisters drew themselves up in so much offence, or why Mrs Hunter cried, "Oh, fie, for shaood-naturedly, "Cousin Phoebe, ti, and poor Sir Jovian and his brother were the county beaux The child is right enough when one colad that poor Mr A and cheerful about hi baronet, never comes down to see hirieve to think what the old place will coentleh, more's the pity, he is in a bad school with Colonel Mar for his co his ossip and scandal then waxed fast and furious on the authority of Mrs Hunter's sister, but no one paid any more attention to Aurelia, except that when there was an adjournment to the next room, she was treated with such double stiffness and cerereat offence, and was highly disapproved of by all but Mrs Hunter And Aurelia could not like her, for her gossip had been far broader and coarser than that of the Mistresses Treforth, who, though entlewoible to Betty's carefully shielded pupil, who sat all the ti ainst ree with those ere so evidently prejudiced Tea was brought in delicate porcelain cups, then followed cards, which made the time pass less drearily till supper This consisted of dishes still tinier than those at dinner, and it was scarcely ended when it was announced that Jumbo had come for Miss Delavie