sacred place.

    `t ougo be eloquent, said Step quite knohe occasion.

    `No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference, said Maggie, flustle.

    Lucy  Step going to like eac Maggie soo odd and clever to please t critical gentleman. `erposed, `you ended t you are too fond of being admired, and noures to admire you.

    `Not at all, said Maggie, `I like too o feel t I am admired, but compliments never make me feel t.

    `I  again, Miss tulliver, said Stephen.

    `t .

    Poor Maggie! So society t sake notter of course, and  s necessarily appear absurd to more experienced ladies, from t to to very trivial incidents. But stle absurdity in tance. It rue, sic objection to compliments and iently to P s see old  tiful any more to be told t till, to be so irritated by a common practice in tranger like Mr Step, and to care about ingly of ainly unreasonable, and as soon as s so be as did not occur to  ation o ter emotion  as  drop of cold er may fall upon us as a sudden smart.

    Stepoo  to seem una tion could  embarrassing, and at once began to talk of impersonal matters, asking Lucy if s lengto take place, so t t be some s more grateful ted flo were growing under her fingers.

    `Some day next mont your sisters are doing more for it to  stall.

    `A tures in tting-room rude on t addicted to tulliver, said Step Maggies plain hemming.

    `No, said Maggie, `I can do not or more elegant t-making.

    `And your plain se