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The reader will perhaps have learned by this time a thing which I had myself suspected before I had been twenty-four hours in Mr Nosnibor’s house—I mean, that the Nosnibors were very rich people, and exceedingly attentive and hospitable to me, yet that I could not and did not like them, with the exception of Arowhena who was quite different from the rest. They were not fair samples of Erewhonians. I saw many families with whom they were on visiting terms, whose manners charmed me more than I know how to say, but I never could get over my original prejudice against Mr Nosnibor for having embezzled the money. Mrs Nosnibor, too, was a very worldly woman, yet to hear her talk one would have thought that she had received the stigmata; neither could I endure Zulora; Arowhena however was perfection. She it was who ran all the little errands for her mother and Mr Nosnibor and Zulora, and gave those thousand proofs of sweetness and unselfishness which some one member of a family is generally required to give. All day long it was Arowhena this, and Arowhena that; but she never seemed to know that she was being put upon, and was always bright and willing from morning till evening. Zulora certainly was very handsome, but Arowhena