Poor Browne! What a good man he was!" "I don't like that boy at all," said Frank.

"I beg you'll not ask him again while I'm at home: he is so selfish and self-important; and yet he's a bit snobbish now and then.

Mother! I know what you mean by that look.

Well! if I am self-important sometimes, I'm not a snob." "Little Maggie is very nice," said Erminia.

"What a pity she has not a new frock! Was not she good about it, Frank, when she tore it ?" "Yes, she's a nice little thing enough, if she does not get all spirit cowed out of her by that brother.