Her children, she bade me
observe, had inherited the true Bohun ears as shown in an engraving
she possessed of a Bohun tomb in Normandy. I walked with the party
up the High Street, and had not gone far when I saw Melissa coining
towards us. O, Mr. Rambler, can I utter it! She approached us, she
knew that I must have recognised her, but I turned my head towards a
shop-window and called my companions' attention to the display of
silks and satins. After Melissa had passed, my lady asked me if
that was not the watchmaker's daughter and whether I knew anything
about her. I replied that I believed it was, and that I had heard
she was a respectable young woman. My lady remarked that she had
understood that she was virtuous, but that she had been unbecomingly
brought up, and considered herself superior to her position. Her
ladyship confessed that she would not be surprised any day to hear
that Miss -----had been obliged to leave B., for she had noticed
that when a female belonging to the lower orders strove to acquire
knowledge unsuitable to her station, the consequence was often ruin.
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