I have had my eye on her several times since you withdrew yours; and I have had the honour of witnessing a little spectacle which you were spared." I did not ask what; I waited voluntary information, which was presently given.
"Miss Fanshawe," he said, "has a companion with her--a lady of rank.

I happen to know Lady Sara by sight; her noble mother has called me in professionally.

She is a proud girl, but not in the least insolent, and I doubt whether Ginevra will have gained ground in her estimation by making a butt of her neighbours." "What neighbours ?" "Merely myself and my mother.

As to me it is all very natural: nothing, I suppose, can be fairer game than the young bourgeois doctor; but my mother! I never saw her ridiculed before.

Do you know, the curling lip, and sarcastically levelled glass thus directed, gave me a most curious sensation ?" "Think nothing of it, Dr.John: it is not worth while.