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"I should not have cared where you were, if you had kept out of the garret!" said I. Hatty gave one of her odious giggles, and away she went. Now, how can I live at peace with Hatty, will anybody tell me? I am so delighted! My Aunt Kezia has come into my plan for having the Bracewells here at Christmas, along with the Drummonds.
I wish something pleasant would happen. The only thing I can think of to do is to go in a chair to visit Hatty and the Bracewells, and I am afraid that would be something unpleasant. I have not spoken to Mr Crossland, but I do not like the look of him; and Mrs Crossland is a stranger, and I am tired of strangers. They so seldom seem to turn out pleasant people.
"At Mrs Crossland's, in Charles Street, where I shall be perfectly delighted to see my youngest sister." "Oh! Not with the Bracewells?" "With the Bracewells, certainly. Did you suppose they had pitch-forked me through the window into Mrs Crossland's drawing-room?" "But who is Mrs Crossland?"
"A friend of the Bracewells," said Hatty, with an air of such studied carelessness that I began to wonder what was behind it. "Has Mrs Crossland daughters?" I asked. "One a little chit, scarce in her teens." "Is there a Mr Crossland?" "There isn't a Papa Crossland, if you mean that. There is a young Mr Crossland." "Oh!" said I.
"I suppose he has his reasons," said my Aunt Kezia; "but that being so, I think Sophy had better go home for a while with the Bracewells, and Hatty, too. You, Cary, may go with Flora instead, if you like. Fanny, of course, is arranged for already, as she will be married by then, and will only have to stop at home." I thought I would very much rather go with Flora.
The fact was, that he had got into the good graces of Miss Deborah Crank, Mr Crank's maiden sister, who resided with him to look after Miss Lucy and keep his house in order. I met the Captain there at two or three evening parties to which the Bracewells and I were invited, and on each occasion he was evidently paying court to the young lady.
I ran over in my mind, as I was walking back to the manse with Flora, who was very silent, all the people I knew; and I could not think of one other who might be on Flora's road. Father and my sisters, Esther Langridge, the Catteralls, the Bracewells, Cecilia oh dear, no! At all the four I named last, my mind gave a sort of jump as if it were quite astonished to be asked the question.
Fanny will be married on the 30th, that is three weeks hence; and the week after, Hatty goes with the Bracewells, and I with Flora, to their own homes; and my Aunt Kezia and Sophy will remain here, and only leave the house on the evening before the marriage. It seems very odd that Father should have wished not to have us at his wedding. Was it Cecilia who did not wish it?
"Are these people Papists, then?" "Not to acknowledge it. I had not an idea when we came nor the Bracewells, I am sure." "And did they want all three of you to be nuns?" "No only me, I believe. I heard Father Godfrey saying to the Mother that neither Charlotte nor Amelia would answer the purpose: but what the purpose was, I don't know." "Who are you talking about? Who is Father Godfrey?
Trust her not, She is fooling thee!" Here they all are at last, and the house is as full as it will hold. The Bracewells came first in their great family coach and four Charlotte and Amelia and a young friend whom they had with them. Her name is Cecilia Osborne, and she is such a genteel-looking girl! She moves about, not languidly like Amelia, but in such a graceful, airy way as I never saw.
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