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warns me to make a creditablepointed out to the succeeding--and a fast-succeeding

generation it is! as a disappointed old maid--passée belle, who

squandered her capital of fascinations, and has become a pauper upon

public toleration, whileimpatient at my many and profitless flirtations, and anxious

to see me 'settled' My mother's pet text, since I was sixteen, has

been her prayerful desire that I, the last of her nestlings, should

h and helpful partner, and set up a

separate establishment before she dies When that event occurs, I

shall be, in effect, homeless--a boarder around uponwould end,' and who

will be forever scribbling 'vanitas vanitatum,' upon the tombstone

of my departed youth--my day of beaux and offers You ht! You are no better off than

I, should your brother see cause to refuse his consent to your

e with Mr Chilton He could, and probably would, coerce you

into another alliance before you were twenty-one There are sothe life out of a woman's heart, when it is already

faint fro, but not seeeous

violence And Winston would show himself an adept in such arts, if

occasion offered"