LADIES AMBITIOUS AND ASPIRING. 291 
In a little town upon a small island, from our position on the 
outside, perhaps we were inclined to be cynical and uncharitable, 
when we allowed ourselves to be amused at the apparent official 
and social exaltation of some of its more favored people. If the 
Governor at times seemed to us a little airy; if the young, newly- 
appointed and freshly imported Chief Justice, who blossomed 
out in a scarlet robe of office and a wig, (judicial toggery before 
unknown upon the judicial bench of Nassau,) seemed to us much 
more elated than any Chief Justice we had seen in the States; 
if the Bishop sported titles but little in harmony with the humble 
and modest spirit of the Apostles of the olden times; and if to 
our superficial view ‘‘the upper classes” appeared somewhat 
proud, supercilious and exclusive, it may have been because at 
the time we failed to remember that they were only exhibiting 
traits of character common to our race in all parts of the world; 
that they were playing the game of life, as it is everywhere played, 
only the stage upon which the chief actors performed their several 
parts was relatively small and insignificant. 
But as we looked from our quiet nook upon the different phases 
of life in Nassau, what astonished us most was the great desire 
- which certain ladies from the States manifested to mingle on - 
terms of social equality with the aristocracy of Nassau, and to 
receive attentions from officials with high sounding titles. The 
poet is not correct when he affirms that . 
*¢ Women, like moths, are ever caught by glare,” 
though it is true that they frequently are, and a very large title 
occasionally surrounds with an attractive and dazzling effulgence 
small, bad, and repulsive men. As woman’s sphere is domestic 
and social, it was natural that the lady guests at Nassau, finding 
themselves isolated and cut off from the outside world, should 
