Dilemmas of Pride, (Vol 1 of 3)

aving baronets for lovers? I dare say you are right, Grace, and that this marriage of my father's (for I suppose now it will take place), is the best thing that could have happened for us. And I

be jealous of every lady that looked at him; and he said, 'would you indeed?' and laughed again. And he asked me if I admired his dancing as much as most people did, for that he was thought a first rate dancer; and I said that nobody could help admiring his dancing. And he asked me if I could think what in the world it was that made so many young ladies refuse to dance with

wished he'd make you one,

t I was afraid people would hear me; if we had

ce at your door, it shouldn't have to knock twice. I'm sure it knocked then, with a vengeance, and such a knock as comes to the doors of but few, I can tell you; and you the fool not to answer it. It's such as you'll never hear again, with your

race, almost whimpering, "I'm sure I thought I

ur mock modesty," in

," continued Grace, "and rather genteeler for that matter,"

ecame so coarse and disgusting in its manifestation, that

humour. Propitious fate deliver us

e, to the age of five or six, was brought up, literally running about in a very minor establishment, little better, in short, than a road-side posting-house; and, being a pretty, rosy, fat child, had, up to that age, been the pet and plaything, not only of her father, (she had no mother living), but of every waiter and hostler in and about the house. And often had she sat on her father's knee, while he drank his ale in the bar, and, when the jest and the tale went ro

ment. In these, and her being very pretty, Mr. * * * *, afterwards Lord Flamborough, but then a younger brother, and of course po

ll-assorted union, behaved with neglect, and even contempt, towards his wife. Upon which the lady, partly out of reveng

; but before the divorce had passed the house, his lordship, wh

speaking, only disreputable class, made up of those who have lost caste by their own wilful departures from principle, and those who are contemptible enough to be willing to associate with vice, for the love of the tarnished tinsel which once was rank; forgetful that titles and honours were first invented as bad

surd to call a

o for every treason against good morals? Are not good morals as

rder. Why then should not a sin against the end b

ent of their just debts at home; consigning the while industrious tradesmen and their helpless families to ruin;-are men, in short, who are no longer men of honour

d to sully honours till the

assurance that morality for centuries had not been sinned against in that house, then indeed, would rank be nobility. Let us not be misunderstood: let us not be supposed to mean that men of rank are more likely to offend again

its monarch of that greatest of his titles, "Defender of the Faith!" For w

r is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their