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 you know—both physically and morally and mentally—as a high Tory I acknowledge that—I could not describe the dignity of her voice and mien as she addressed me thus: still, I fear, she was selfish, my dear. I would never wish to speak ill of my superiors in rank; but I think she was a little selfish.

"I remember," continued Mrs. Pryor, after a pause, "another of Miss H.'s observations, which she would utter with quite a grand air. ',' she would say,—' need the imprudencies, extravagances, mistakes, and crimes of a certain number of fathers to sow the seed from which reap the harvest of governesses. The daughters of trades-people, however well educated, must necessarily be underbred, and as such unfit to be inmates of  dwellings, or guardians of  children's minds and persons.  shall ever prefer to place those about  offspring, who have been born and bred with somewhat of the same refinement as.

"Miss Hardman must have thought herself something better than her fellow-creatures, ma'am, since she held that their calamities, and even crimes, were necessary to minister to her convenience. You say she was religious: her religion must have been that of the Pharisee, who thanked God that he was not as other men are, nor even as that publican."

"My dear, we will not discuss the point: I should be the last person to wish to instil into your mind