The Mingotts had not proclaimed their disapproval aloud: their sense of solidarity was too strong. They had simply, as Mrs. Welland said, \"let poor Ellen find her own level\"—and that, mortifyingly and incomprehensibly, was in the dim depths where the Blenkers prevailed, and \"people who wrote\" celebrated their untidy rites. It was incredible, but it was a fact, that Ellen, in spite of all her opportunities and her privileges,
The Mingotts had not proclaimed their disapproval aloud: their sense of solidarity was too strong. They had simply, as Mrs. Welland said, \"let poor Ellen find her own level\"—and that, mortifyingly and incomprehensibly, was in the dim depths where the Blenkers prevailed, and \"people who wrote\" celebrated their untidy rites. It was incredible, but it was a fact, that Ellen, in spite of all her opportunities and her privileges,
