I always said she wasn't a suitable girl to come to this school.

She hasn't the traditions of a lady.

You might as well try to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear as to get such a girl to realize the meaning of _noblesse oblige_.

It's birth that counts, after all, when it comes to the test." "There I think you're wrong, Stephie," put in Lizzie quietly.

"Gentle birth is all very well if it involves preserving a code of honour, but in itself it's no hall-mark of character.