"Don't try to be witty or sarcastic with her, for she will beat you at that."
"Not a dumb-belle, then?"
"Quite the reverse: she talks a good deal, and very well, too, when she likes."
"She is very pretty: has anybody the right to call her 'Ma belle'?"
"Many would be glad to do so, but she won't have any thing to say to them."
"A Canterbury belle, in every sense of the word, then?"
"She might be, for all Canterbury loves her; but she isn't fashionable, and has more friends among the poor than among the rich."
"Ah, I see, a diving-bell, who knows how to go down into a sea of troubles, and bring up the pearls worth having."
"I'll tell her that, it will please her. You are really waking up, Harry," and Kate smiled approvingly upon him.
"This page of 'Belle's Life' is rather amusing, so read away," said Lennox, glancing up-the street, as if he awaited the appearance of the next edition with pleasure.