"I cannot say we approve of her, since she has been out so much in London, and become such a notorious young person." "It's very odd to me," said the canon, benevolently, "little Sarah growing up into a fashionable beauty.

I often see her name in the papers." "She is exactly the kind of person to attract our cousin John, who is quite foolish about her red hair.

In my young days, red hair was just a misfortune like any other," said Miss Crewys.

"Dr.Blundell is lunching here also, I need hardly say.

Since my dear brother's death we keep open house." "It used not to be the fashion to encourage country doctors to be tame cats," said Lady Belstone, viciously; "but he pretends to like the innovations, and gets round young John; and inquires after Peter, and pleases Mary." "Ay, ay; it will be a great moment for her when the boy comes back.