First Impressions

    `stool at Maggies feet, after placing t dark lady in t c to please, said Maggie, smiling, and  t mig. `A gentleman  to be sicised.

    `Indeed,  deal too good for me. And sometimes,  cant really be, t  I can never doubt it  you to kno I feel in t way, Maggie.

    `O engaged, said Maggie y.

    `I  be engaged: - o too to notice Maggies joke, `and I so go on for a long  is. Sometimes I am quite frig Step o papa, and from somet fell from papa t are expecting t. And Stepers are very civil to me no first, I t like tention; and t ural. It does seem out of keeping t I s place like ttle, insignificant thing as I am.

    `But people are not expected to be large in proportion to ts sisters giantesses?

    `O no - and not  is, not very, said Lucy, ent at table remark. `But  least he is generally considered very handsome.

    `to s opinion?

    `O, I dont knoo raise expectation; you  I   tell you  is, though.

    Lucy rose from  to a little distance, ty rait and .

    `Stand up a moment, Maggie.

    ` is your pleasure noe to less drapery of silk and crape.

    Lucy kept emplative attitude a moment or then said,

    `I cant t c is in you, Maggie, t makes you look best in s  do you kno nigrying to fancy you in a  I  old limp merino  toinette looked all t to put anyte unnoticeable - I should be a mere rag.

    `O quite, said Maggie, y. `You o be s out of t dust, and to find yourself under te, like Cinderella. Maynt I sit do