Her father was groom of the Chambers, which is a high office at

court, and she knew it. "I am a child of the court," she said; now she

might just as well have been a child of the cellar, for no one can

help his birth; and then she told the other children that she was

well-born, and said that no one who was not well-born could rise in

the world. It was no use to read and be industrious, for if a person

was not well-born, he could never achieve anything. "And those whose

names end with 'sen,'" said she, "can never be anything at all. We