The things we do!

Miss Newcome thought herself quite innocent, or how should she have cried
out at the naughty behaviour of other people?
"'Wherever we went, however,' resumed my wife's young penitent, 'it was
easy to see, I think I may say so without vanity, who was the object of
Lord Farintosh's attention. He followed us everywhere; and we could not
go upon any visit in England or Scotland but he was in the same house.
Grandmamma's whole heart was bent upon that marriage, and when he
proposed for me I do not disown that I was very pleased and vain.
"'It is in these last months that I have heard about him more, and
learned to know him better--him and myself too, Laura. Some one--some one
you know, and whom I shall always love as a brother--reproached me in
former days for a worldliness about which you talk too sometimes. But it
is not worldly to give yourself up for your family, is it? One cannot
help the rank in which one is born, and surely it is but natural and
proper to marry in it.


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