"No?" I looked at her. Gracious powers! is it possible this beautiful creature can be so blinded by the fortune of the wretched animal, as to look upon him without disgust. "Are you intimate with him?" I enquired.
"Oh yes! we are all very social down here; no ceremony between neighbours. He is a great sportsman."
"Oh, then, it must be your brothers that are his friends, not you!"
"I certainly don't go out shooting with him—in fact, I have no time. I am engaged educating Amy so many hours, that I could not practise enough to be able to hit a bonassus, like a celebrated marksman of my acquaintance; far less a partridge."
"And you educate Amy? and yet you have brothers? and don't despise young Jeeks? and know every body?"
"And like them all," she added.
"All equally?" I enquired.
"With a difference, as a body may say."
"And Amy is your sister?"
"We call ourselves so."