Mrs.Bertram.I have no figure to boast of, nor much of a face either.

What _he_ saw to like in me, poor man, has puzzled my brain a score and score of times.
Kind and affectionate he ever was, but he couldn't but own, as own I did for him, that I was a cut below him.

Beatrice features her father, Mrs.
Bertram, both in mind and body." Mrs.Bertram murmured some compliment about the mother's kind heart, and then turned to a subject which is known to be of infallible interest to all ladies.

She spoke of her ailments.
Mrs.Meadowsweet beamed all over when this subject came on the _tapis_.

She even laid her fat hand on Mrs.Bertram's lap.
"Now, _did_ you ever try Eleazer Macjone's Pills of Life ?" she asked.