S. You always find something to say for her.
H. I should be ashamed if I could not find something to say for anybody who is always abused. How can I help it, Selina, if a girl fifteen years old is not a paragon of perfection? as we all are, if we only could find it out.
S. Her month ends to-morrow. Let her go.
H. And perhaps get in her place a story-teller, a tale-bearer, even a thief. By the bye, the first step in the civilization of the Polynesians was giving them clothes. Suppose we try the experiment with Elizabeth?
The Last Days of Pompeii.
Edward Bulwer Lytton.
City destroyed, A.D. August 24, 79. Discovered, 1750.
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