I should like to have him know I never cared a button about him; and that, if I didn't care for him, I should consider it more shameful to sell myself for his diamonds, than it would have been to have been sold for a slave by papa's creditors when I couldn't help myself.

I am glad you don't feel like going into parties, Mamita; and if you ever do feel like it, I hope you will leave me at home.

I don't want to be introduced to any of these cold, aristocratic Bostonians." "Not all of them cold and aristocratic, darling," replied Mrs.Delano.
"Your Mamita is one of them; and she is becoming less cold and aristocratic every day, thanks to a little Cinderella who came to her singing through the woods, two years ago." "And who found a fairy godmother," responded Flora, subsiding into a tenderer tone.

"It _is_ ungrateful for me to say anything against Boston; and with such friends as the Percivals too.

But it does seem mean that Mr.Green, if he really liked me, should decline speaking to me because my great-grandmother had a dark complexion.