"I knew you would think so!" cried the Colonel, with more warmth than usual to him. "Many years since," resumed Darrell, with reflective air, "I read Miss Edgeworth's novels; and in conversing with Miss Honoria Vipont, methinks I confer with one of Miss Edgeworth's heroines--so rational, so prudent, so well-behaved--so free from silly romantic notions--so replete with solid information, moral philosophy and natural history--so sure to regulate her watch and her heart to the precise moment, for the one to strike, and the other to throb--and to marry at last a respectable steady husband, whom she will win with dignity, and would lose with decorum! A very superior girl indeed."…
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