I wonder if we could get Lillie to go," said he, doubtfully.
Grace did not answer.

Lillie was a subject on which it was always embarrassing to her to be appealed to.

She was so afraid of appearing jealous or unappreciative; and her opinions were so different from those of her brother, that it was rather difficult to say any thing.
"Do you think she would like it, Grace ?" "Indeed, John, you must know better than I.If anybody could make her take an interest in it, it would be you." Before his marriage, John had always had the idea that pretty, affectionate little women were religious and self-denying at heart, as matters of course.

No matter through what labyrinths of fashionable follies and dissipation they had been wandering, still a talent for saintship was lying dormant in their natures, which it needed only the touch of love to develop.

The wings of the angel were always concealed under the fashionable attire of the belle, and would unfold themselves when the hour came.