Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
I cannot imagine that it could be any where pleasant to a female, than in the society of one of her own sex, who had been educated sufficiently to feel the value of a superior woman.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
