All talked at once. "How do you like her? How do you like him?" Those were the most coherent words which echoed simultaneously from all sides. Lori's sharp voice was the first to pierce through the noise.
"She cannot long have left her governesses. She is a very nice child, but the schoolroom clings to all her movements. He is a very different man. He shows plainly that he has long since passed through school, and also the school of life."
"She has fine eyes," said Ophelia, opening her own widely.
"But not so fine as yours," said Lori, quickly, "as that is all that you wished to hear."
"T could not like him," said Marie, "he looks so sleepy."
"That indicates a deep, mental life," said Euphrasia; "when he does open his eyes, a great deal of intellect lies in them. And he does open them when anything arouses his sympathies. We all, of course, are very uninteresting to him, but I like men to whom we are, or appear so."
"Well, then, you have an extensive public upon whom to exercise your liking," said Lori.
Albertina interrupted a silence of some hours with the thoughtful words--
"Besides, he has a good figure."
"I imagine her to be most domestic," said Emma, "and that is the principal matter. She is sure to be at home beside the kitchen fire and the bread board, and look very pretty there, too. And that is very important. It is no art to look well in a ball dress."