There was a very long dining table laid out, and, as might be expected, all the boys got together at the end where Edward sat, and all the girls got round Jane Roscoe, for it must be remembered that hostilities had begun in the morning between the boys and girls, and Jane was not the kind of girl to make peace, or desire to make peace and conduct herself as would be becoming a young lady.

Well, Lady Jane is the best of the two; Lady Violet is a lump.

Jane was a good-natured girl, but she could not stand this, and, reaching forward, she gave Polly a little shake, and said, "Now, Polly Price, you just stop and be a good girl, or I'll never have anything more to do with you.

Jerushy Jane! would n't be fit t' skin a skunk in them do's, would it?" "Got 'em off a scarecrow," I said.

They had probably both got firsts, but Jane's would be a safe thing, and Johnny would be likely to have a longish viva.

Isn't it funny?" "Jane was always a whimsical woman.

'Jane is such a fool!'

Jane has always been a materialist.

little Jane became the parent of Caterina and of Maggie Tulliver; and Shirley prepared the way for Meredith's large-limbed, large-brained, large-hearted women.

Jane was a flirt, but, after all, it would not have cost him much, so to speak, to play up to her.

And Jane, though high-principled, kind, and self-sacrificing, is too narrow andnot exactly conceitedbut exclusive and Bourne Parvaish, not to be as bad in her way, though it is the sound one.

The plain fact is,' I was in a fit of savage truth-speaking, 'that Jane is second-rate.' 'Well ...' The gesture of Katherine's square shoulders may have meant several things'Aren't we all?'

[Illustration] [Illustration] CHAPTER I AUNT JANE'S OLD TOYS

What an old fraud our dear Aunt Jane was!

But they could stand it long enough for Father to thunder from the library, "Jane, what in Heaven's name is the meaning of all this?"

'We seem to have decided,' Katherine said, 'that Jane is a Potterite.' 'Morally she is.

What sort of philosophy is that which says, "John is a fool; Jane is a genius; nevertheless, John, being a man, should learn, lead, make laws, make money; Jane, being a woman, shall be ignorant, dependent, disfranchised, underpaid.

For a short time the colonel seemed at a loss where to make his choice; but a few days determined him, and Jane was evidently the favorite.

Don't you find Jane is a peculiar child, Esther?" "Only a little shy," said Esther, quickening her steps.

Jane is an instance in point, but I devoutly hope you are not to be another.

Lady Jane and Mrs. Dobbin became great friends, and there was a perpetual crossing of pony chaises between the two places.

The joining of a plural title to one singular noun, as, "Misses Roy,""The Misses Bell,""The two Misses Thomson," produces a phrase which is in itself the least analogous of the three; but, "The Misses Jane and Eliza Bell," is a phrase which nobody perhaps will undertake to amend.

A good deal of my spare time, while Jane was hors de combat, was spent in the jewellers' shops of the Chandni chowk, the principal merchants' quarter of Delhi.

Jane and I were sorrier, I think, to part with him than he with us.

Little Jane was a fiery portent.