Page 84 - The Little sister of Wilifred

lor the want of an older listener began

talking to Peggy.
11 I can tell you Mis' Brewer holds her

head pretty high, but why should n't she,
with all the money they’ve made out of

that egg-beater. She don’t set so much

by education as I do, I could see th at;
but lorT, there’s odds in passengers.
That shawl she wore would be a passe-

pour-tout, as the French say, into any

society, though shawls has rather gone
by. I studied French when I was a girl,

Peg.1' (Mrs. liagley pronounced this
word gm rl when she was in company,

and she was still speaking as if she
thought Mrs. Brewer might be hidden

under the sofa,) '‘ To be sure, I never
got so s to speak it, but my father paid

enough for me to have learned to speak
it like a native born, and that comes to

the same thing. He gave his children