She wanted me to have ease of manner; she thinks that if you don't acquire it when you are young you never have it at all.

She was so happy to think I should come to Baden; but she would n't approve of the life I 've been leading the last four days.

That 's no way to acquire ease of manner--sitting all day in a small parlor with two persons of one's own sex! Of course Mrs.Vivian's influence--that 's the great thing.

Mamma said it was like the odor of a flower.

But you don't want to keep smelling a flower all day, even the sweetest; that 's the shortest way to get a headache.