"What's the use of getting oneself disgusted ?" "One must not begin with showing dislike," began Ethel, "or--" "Ay--you like rags, don't you?
but hush!" "That is just what I should expect of Mr.Rivers," said Dr.May; "he has cultivated his taste till it is getting to be a disease, but his daughter has no lack of wit." "Perhaps not.

Charles and Mary are very fond of her, but she is entirely inexperienced, and that is a serious thing with so much money to throw about.

She pays people for sending their children to school, and keeping their houses tidy; and there is so much given away, that it is enough to take away all independence and motive for exertion.

The people speculate on it, and take it as a right; by-and-by there will be a reaction--she will find out she is imposed upon, take offence, and for the rest of her life will go about saying how ungrateful the poor are!" "It is a pity good people won't have a little common-sense," said Dr.
May.

"But there's something so bewitching in that little girl, that I can't give her up.