They mean to give tea-parties once a week to the undergraduates at Saint Bede's, because she says the master ought to be like a father over them, invite them and make his house pleasant to them.

Such a thing was never heard of in our days." "No; but I dare say dear Arnold knows best.

And what about Miss Smiles ?" "I've told you twenty times already, Maria, how Miss Smiles said that Mrs.Brereton said--you know Mrs.Brereton, who has so many children, and never can keep a governess long--that her new governess, who happens to be Miss Susan Bennett, whom, you may remember, I once got for Letitia--told her a long story about Mrs.Grey and Sir Edwin Uniacke--how he was an old acquaintance of hers before she was married." "Of Christian's?
She never said so.

Oh no! it can't be, or she would have said so." "Don't be too sure of that," said Aunt Henrietta, mysteriously.
"Besides, she dislikes him.

You know, Henrietta, that when he called here last week, and she happened to be with us, she put on her bonnet and went home immediately, without seeing him!" "And a very rude thing, too, on her part.