Phoebe, Junior

sits, and Mrs. Copperhead asked a great many questions about you. She is very tender-hearted to the -- young." Anne had almost said to the poor, for it is difficult to remember always that the

ophy, and the blue serge jacket which corresponded with her dress. She had not any great opinion of her own good looks, but she hoped that she was "lady-like," notwithstanding the simplicity of her costume. This was her only aspiration. In her heart she admired the tall straight angular kind of beauty p

first duty? She tried for her part to be nice to everybody, to talk when she could, and receive the recompense of pleased looks. To walk with her friends up the long line of Regent Street, with many a sidelong glance into the shop-windows, was very pleasant to Ur

Anne said, looking at something so splendid that Ursula thought

," he said. "It will last out my day, and

he who could buy everything she wanted (as Ursula thought) had on the whole more painful feelings in looking at them, than had the little girl beside her, whose whole thoughts were occupied by the question whether she would have enough money left t

ale little countenance brightened at sight of them. They were the nearest approach to "her own peopl

ay so. I am afraid it was not much amusemen

ou are not such a fine fellow as you thought yourself. Once before I experienced something of the same feeling. It was at a ball at the Tuileries-but even then, a

mplied censure more than s

ting fashionable people," she said, with a

liked it so much. At most balls we go to, people come and ask me to

Anne's head. Why should her dancing days be over? I am not a Methuselah, I hope. She has no

here is Mr. Copperhead!" she added, with a little start, as a resounding knock was heard. "He does not often

h man's nervous wife. She had been quiet enough, so long as she was alone. Now a little

It is nicer in May, when everything looks cheerful; but I alway

. Cousin Anne brought me for a great pleasure. I ha

d, did you dance? I cannot remember. There were so ma

I never was at a ball before. It was v

ife, she will give me a good character," said the master of the house, coming up to

and I, to let Clara know how much we enjoyed it. It was really splendid. I don't know whe

ay my money in that way, but when I do I like things to be regardless of expense. That is our way in the city

gree with you that money should not be spared when a good effect is to be produced. Anne, my dear,

be shocked if I offer you anything else in the afternoon. Haven't you ordered tea, Mrs. Copperhead? I can't teach my wife hospitality, Sir Robert-not as I under

ease. It is rather early, but I do so hope you will stay." She gave Miss

good if there's any virtue in money. Come and look at my Turner, Sir Robert. I ain't a judge of art, but it

spitable, he cannot bear that any one should go without tak

ad a superstitious regard for other people's feelings, "and M

at even the gentle Anne could scarcely help smiling. When he had shaken hands with Miss Dorset he dropped naturally into a seat beside Ursula, who, dazzled by his po

ecovered my father

d! Mr. Co

e scarcely recovered yet. The sort of people

says, how much more noble of him than if they had been fine people he did not

oung man. "My good cousins did not take i

laughs at me sometimes, but Cousin Anne is as kind as an

? Sir Robert has been kind e

eople like them," said Ursula, with anxious honesty, that he might not have a false idea of her pretensions. "I have never been anywhere all my life, and th

und the handsome room, not without a little complacency, "and when there is plenty of light and flowers, and well-dres

young lady in black. She was always dancing. I should have liked t

uld have been noticed, especially by a pretty creature, who herself had attracted him and shared the privilege. "That was M

lder Mr. Copperhead, who came back, followed by Sir Robert. There was a largeness about the rich man, which Ursula, not used to rich men, gazed at with surprise. He seemed to expand himself upon the air, and spread out his large person, as she had never known any one else do. And Sir Robert, following him,

ver you call them, and tell them I want proofs that it's genuine. I am not the sort of man, by George! to be cheated, and they ought to know that. They have had many a hundred pounds of

grand big house that could make a disagreeable smell?) "I only said that I had seen copies that were so wonderf

n tell the men it is Sir Robert Dorset who suggested it. There's nothing like a title (even when it isn't much of a title) to keep people up to their work. Not meaning an

lf, which I bought for a Correggio, and which is a mere copy, I believe, though a very nice one.

ad? What! going, after all, without your tea? I am afraid, ma'am, the Baronet is touchy, and doesn't

k leave of poor little tremulous Mrs. Copperhead. "We really

Dorset, of these little persons. They stand in the way of the young ladies t

nt; but what it was, neither of them could make out. Mrs. Copperhead, whose intell

e connections, through your kind Cousin Anne; for she lets me call her my Cousin An

be very glad," sa

ad, he did not interest Ursula. But he went down to the door with them in an excess of civility, offering Anne his arm, which she was obliged to take, muc

said Mr. Copperhead, wi

ritated and injured? Even Sir Robert grew scarlet, and when they were

t if it was to save my life, shall I

ied kind Anne, with a wail in her vo

o