The things we do!

I
liked to surpass my companions, and I saw them so eager in pursuing him!
You cannot think, Laura, what meannesses women in the world will commit--
mothers and daughters too, in the pursuit of a person of his great rank.
Those Miss Burrs, you should have seen them at the country-houses where
we visited together, and how they followed him; how they would meet him
in the parks and shrubberies; how they liked smoking though I knew it
made them ill; how they were always finding pretexts for getting near
him! Oh, it was odious!'"
I would not willingly interrupt the narrative, but let the reporter be
allowed here to state that at this point of Miss Newcome's story (which
my wife gave with a very pretty imitation of the girl's manner), we both
burst out laughing so loud that little Madame de Moncontour put her head
into the drawing-room and asked what we was a-laughing at? We did not
tell our hostess that poor Ethel and her grandmother had been accused of
doing the very same thing for which she found fault with the Misses Burr.


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