The things we do!

Don't you know
that I have been made over to Lady Kew, who has adopted me? Do you think
a young lady of my pretensions can stop at home in a damp house in
Warwickshire and cut bread-and-butter for little schoolboys? Don't look
so very grave and shake your head so, Mrs. Pendennis! If you had been
bred as I have, you would be as I am. I know what you are thinking,
madam."
"I am thinking," said Laura, blushing and bowing her head--"I am
thinking, if it pleases God to give me children, I should like to live at
home at Fairoaks." My wife's thoughts, though she did not utter them, and
a certain modesty and habitual awe kept her silent upon subjects so very
sacred, went deeper yet. She had been bred to measure her actions by a
standard which the world may nominally admit, but which it leaves for the
most part unheeded. Worship, love, duty, as taught her by the devout
study of the Sacred Law which interprets and defines it--if these formed
the outward practice of her life, they were also its constant and secret
endeavours and occupation.


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