"The manners of a prince," she said, "and the complexion of a gipsy.

Is he a nobleman ?" Zo answered, "He's a doctor,"-- as if that was something much better.
"Do you like him ?" Teresa inquired next.
Zo answered the duenna as she had answered the doctor: "I don't know." In the meantime, Ovid and his cousin had not been unobservant of what was passing at a little distance from them.

Benjulia's great height, and his evident familiarity with the child, stirred Carmina's curiosity.
Ovid seemed to be disinclined to talk of him.

Miss Minerva made herself useful, with the readiest politeness.

She mentioned his odd name, and described him as one of Mrs.Gallilee's old friends.