"No, Mary, it is too exposing."
"Nor of keeping a school?"
"No."
"Well, what do you think of my learning the dress-making business?"
"Nonsense, Mary!"
"But, mother, I could learn in six months, and then we could set up the business, and I am sure we could do well. Almost every one who sets up dress-making, gets along."
"There was always something low to me in the idea of a milliner or mantua maker, and I cannot bear the thought of your being one," Mrs. Turner replied, in a decided tone.
"You know what Pope says, mother—
'Honor and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honor lies.'"
"Yes, but that is poetry, child."