Volume I Part 23 (1/2)

”Because I told her so s about the sort of people she will see, and how to knohat is beautiful in people who are not wise She promised to come and live with er; but till then, I shall, perhaps, never meet her, for our ways are not the sah rave; and if she only finds her art is fair, I shall not be afraid for her”

”But is she not ill? I never saw anybody look so strange”

”That is because her hair is shorter You do not like her, Master Auchester?”

I shook reat deal”

”You will try, please She will be an artist”

”But don't you consider,--of course I don't know,--but don't you consider dancing the lowest art?”

”Oh, Master Auchester! all the arts help each other, and are all in themselves so pure that we cannot say one is purer than the other

Besides, was it not in the dreaels descended as well as ascended?”

”You are like Martin Luther”

”Why so?”

”Clo--that is my clever sister--told ion”

”Oh, Mr Davy tells that story”

”Miss Benette, you are very naughty! You see that everybody says”

”No; it is because I see so few people that I remember all they say”

”Are you not at _all_ fonder of hed heartily, showing one or two of her twinkling teeth

”I a that lives or is, or rather I ah I a child in that life at present But I a, I ; and I can dance very well, particularly on the top of a wall But I do not care about it, you know”

”You lad or sorry

But be thankful that it is enough for solad, and sorry too, I think, going away now When I coone,” said Clara

”I shall be a man--”

”And I an old worow old, I believe”

”Oh, yes, I shall; but I do not row old”

”I am sure it will!” I cried, with an enthusiasm that seemed to surprise her, so unconscious was she ever of any effect she had