It was her own doing," said Lady Mary.
"That is just what I told her," said Lady Belstone, triumphantly.
"Though how she can be regretting such a daughter I cannot conjecture." "Sarah is a saucy creature," said Miss Crewys.

"The last time I saw her she made one of her senseless jokes at me." "She has no tact," said Lady Belstone, shaking her head; "for when Peter saw you were annoyed, and tried to pass it off by telling her the Crewys family had no sense of humour, instead of saying, 'What nonsense!' she said, 'What a pity!'" "Her mother was full of a letter from Lady Tintern about some grand lord or other, who wanted to marry Sarah.

I did my best to make her understand how very unlikely it was that any man, noble or otherwise, would care to marry a girl with carroty hair." "I doubt if you succeeded in convincing her, Georgina, though you spoke pretty plain, and I am very far from blaming you for it.

But she is ate up with pride, poor thing, because Sarah gets noticed by Lady Tintern's friends, who would naturally wish to gratify her by flattering her niece." "I am afraid the girl is setting her cap at Peter," said Miss Crewys; "but I took care to let her mother know, casually, what our family would think of such a marriage for him." "Peter is a boy," said Lady Mary, quickly; "and Sarah, for all practical purposes, is ten years older than he.

She is only amusing herself.