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Duncombe; "they come before the poor are
prepared, and with a spice of the autocrat."
"Come, I won't have you shock Mrs. Charnock Poynsett," said Lady
Tyrrell. "You illogical woman! The poor are to demand better
houses, and the squires are not to build them!"
"The poor are to be fitly housed, as a matter of right, and from
their own sense of self-respect," returned Mrs. Duncombe; "not a few
favourites, who will endure dictation, picked out for the model
cottage. It is the hobby system against which I protest."
"Without quite knowing what was conveyed by it in this instance?"
said Lady Tyrrell. "I am sure there is nothing I wish more than
that we had any power of improvement of the cottages here; but
influence is our only weapon."
"By the bye, Mrs. Poynsett," continued Mrs. Duncombe, "will you give
a hint to Mrs. Miles Charnock that it will never do to preach to the
women at the working-room? I don't mean holding forth," she added,
seeing Cecil's look of amazement; "but improving the occasion,
talking piously, giving tracts, and so forth.


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