It is very odd! Evidently she is the Scotch Presbyterian's daughter still, for all her profession, and her success, and her easy ways with the Sabbath! Her remark produced a good deal of unregenerate irritation in me.

If she were a first-rate artist to begin with, I was inclined to reflect, this moral enthusiasm would touch and charm one a good deal more; as it is, considering her position, it is rather putting the cart before the horse.

But, of course, one can understand that it is just these traits in her that help her to make the impression she does on London society and the orthodox public in general.
'Wallace and I went off after the nut-hatches, enjoying a private laugh by the way over Mrs.Stuart's little look of amazement and discomfort as Miss Bretherton delivered herself.

When we came back we found Forbes sketching her--she sitting rather flushed and silent under the tree, and he drawing away and working himself at every stroke into a greater and greater enthusiasm.

And certainly she was as beautiful as a dream, sitting against that tree, with the brown heather about her and the young oak-leaves overhead.