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This Lady Belle, as they call her, is only about fourteen, and such a spoilt little vixen, that they say nobody has been able to teach her so er, never would have her crossed in anything, and now she has got too headstrong for any of 'e for supper, they heard the ht so out, but at the door they ht It's onlylady in her tantrums!' So in the servants' hall, Grey heard it was all because her mamma wouldn't let her put on two suits of pearls and di'ether She lies on her back, and rolls and kicks till she gets her oay; and by what the servants say, the Dowager heerself ain't ot a black eye she had given her with her fan She has never had no breeding, you see, and there are uglier stories about her than I like to tell you, Miss Aureely; and as to the young lady, Sir Amyas saw her with his own eyes slap the lackey's face for bringing her brown sugar instead of white She is a little dwarfish thing that puts her finger in her e; but Colonel Mar is going to have her up to a boarding-school to mend herhis Honour to her as if she was a perfect angel"

"They never can!"

"Well, s they have a mind to; and they mean to do this before my Lady's husband couardian"

"That's what et his consent out of hientleman out to be non compos, and do without hientleman I ever saw, except , you see A gentleman to shut himself up in the dark like that must needs be astray in his wits"

"That is because of his eyes, and his wound Nobody could talk to him and doubt his reason"

"Well, ht; but what my Lady's interest is, that she is apt to carry out, one way or t'other! Bless ht he was fast off to sleep There never was a child for hating the dark Yes, yes, I', my dearie! Lack a daisy, if his mamma heard!"