The things we do!

She told me very artlessly her little
history, Arthur; it affected me to hear her simple talk, and--and I
blessed God for our mother, my dear, and that my early days had had a
better guide.
"You know that for a long time it was settled that she was to marry her
cousin, Lord Kew. She was bred to that notion from her earliest youth;
about which she spoke as we all can about our early days. They were
spent, she said, in the nursery and schoolroom for the most part. She was
allowed to come to her mother's dressing-room, and sometimes to see more
of her during the winter at Newcome. She describes her mother as always
the kindest of the kind: but from very early times the daughter must have
felt her own superiority, I think, though she does not speak of it. You
should see her at home now in their dreadful calamity. She seems the only
person of the house who keeps her head.
"She told very nicely and modestly how it was Lord Kew who parted from
her, not she who had dismissed him, as you know the Newcomes used to say.


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