"
"I am a bad reasoner, Mr. Woodward," she replied.
"But, perhaps, Miss Goodwin, Mr. O'Connor would say that you make up in
feeling what you want in logic."
"I hope, sir," replied Alice, with some spirit--for she felt hurt at his
last observation--"that I will never feel on any subject until I have
reason as well as inclination to support me."
"Ah," said he, "I fear that if you once possess the inclination you
will soon supply the reason. But, by the way, talking of your friend and
favorite, Mr. O'Connor, I must say I like him very much, and I am, not
surprised that you do."
"I do, indeed," she replied; "I know of nobody I like better than
honest, frank, and generous Ferdora."
"Well, Miss Goodwin, I assure you he shall be a favorite of mine for
your sake."
"Indeed, Mr. Woodward, if you knew him, he would become one for his
own."
"Have you known him long, may I ask, Miss Goodwin?"
"O dear, yes," said Mrs. Goodwin, who now, finding this a fair opening
in the conversation, resolved to have her share of it--"O dear! yes;
Alley and he know each other ever since her childhood; he's some three
or four years older than she is, to be sure, but that makes little
difference.
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