And I must hear of your brother, "little Collett." Don't forget, Sely, little Collett was our postman.' The Countess of Ormont's humorous reference to the circumstance passed with Selina for a sign of a poetic love of the past, and a present social elevation that allowed her to review it impassively.

She admired the great lady and good friend who could really be interested in the fortunes of a mere schoolmaster and a merchant's clerk.

To her astonishment, by some agency beyond her fathoming, she found herself, and hardly for her own pleasure, pushing the young schoolmaster animatedly to have an account of his aims in the establishment of the foreign school.
Weyburn smiled.

He set a short look at Aminta; and she, conscious of her detected diplomacy, had an inward shiver, mixed of the fascination and repugnance felt by a woman who knows that under one man's eyes her character is naked and anatomized.

Her character ?--her soul.