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ladies declared themselves very much dissatisfied with Brighton, because there was so many low people there. "Them," observed the veteran teacher, "are kind of creatures that one wishes to purtect or sarve, but not to meet cheeck by jowl, when one comes to elegant society. Wilhelmina and I were quite asheamed just now to meet Miss Furbelow, the mantuamaker, who, though she knows our condition in life, had the folly to come up and speak to us as frankly and freely as if she had been our own equals." "I do not think, mamma," said miss, "that it was intentional presumption in the girl, but rather the thoughtless ignorance of what is due to the diversity of ranks in social life. You will observe, Mrs. Hamilton," continued miss in the true imperative tone of preceptorial habit, "that there are different orders, situations, and professions in