"I never saw her so disrespectful before. It troubles her, as I saw by her looks when she went out to-night. We should have had such a nice time if she had gone in. The proprietor of the gallery took great pains to explain all the pictures, many of which he brought from Europe. He hasn't been here long, and has just completed the arrangement of his rooms. He invited me to call often, whenever I wished, and I shall be pretty certain to avail myself of the invitation. Mother, are you willing I should invite him here?"
"Certainly, I would like to become acquainted with all your friends."
"You will like him I know. You know there is something about some people that seems to elevate us by coming in contact with them That is the way James Morgan says I influence him, which I never was vain enough to believe. He came along to day when we were standing at the window, and was quite huffy because I said I was going to be a lawyer. I don't see why it isn't just as respectable to be a lawyer as a minister. They are both professions, and both followed to obtain a living as a general thing."
"Poor boy, his father has been swindled out of so much by unprincipled lawyers that he probably thinks they are all alike. Mr. Kingley had the money to bribe with, and they managed to get Mr. Morgan's place away from him by as unfair means as ever were devised. Mrs. Morgan had some property when she was married which was swallowed up with the rest, a fact she never could forget."
