Patronage

He has no right to speak, and certainly no inclination to think hardly of Miss Hauton, replied Godfrey gravely, but with an emotion, which he in vain endeavored to suppress. To change the conversation, he asked her opinion about a figure in the print. She took out her glass, and stooped to look quite closely at it.—- Before you utterly condemn me, continued she, speaking in a low voice,—- consider how fashion silences one’s better taste and feelings, and how difficult it is when all around one …