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Updated: July 12, 2025
I really am beginning to wish the Bracewells gone. Yet it is not so much on their own account, Amelia is vain and silly, and Charlotte rude and romping; but I do not think either of them is a hypocrite. Charlotte is not, I am sure; she lets you see the very worst side of her: and Amelia's affectation is so plain and unmistakable, that it cannot be called insincerity.
Grandmamma, in brocaded black silk, sat where she always does, at the side of the fire, and my Uncle Charles who for a wonder was at home and my Aunt Dorothea were receiving the people as they came in. The Bracewells were there already, and Hatty, and Mr Crossland, and a middle-aged lady, who I suppose was his mother, and Miss Newton, and a few more whose faces and names I know.
At least, they were boy and girl, I suppose; for Angus Drummond must be over twenty now, and Flora is not far off it. It is more than ten years since we saw the Drummonds, but the Bracewells have been to visit us several times. Amelia Bracewell is Fanny made hotter, or Fanny is Amelia and water which you like. She makes me laugh, and my Aunt Kezia sniff.
I do not know what it is, and I don't care. Business is always dry, uninteresting stuff. Flora will stay with us while Angus goes on to York, and then he will pick her up again as he comes back. I wish the Bracewells might be here at the same time. I should like Flora and Amelia to know one another, and I do not think they do at all. It is shocking dull here at Brocklebank.
All at once I heard Ephraim's voice at my side: "Cary, I want to speak to you. Go on looking at those pictures: other ears are best away. How is Hatty?" "She is better," I said; "but she is not the old Hatty." "I don't think the old Hatty will come back," he said. "Perhaps the new one may be better. Are the Miss Bracewells gone home?" "They start to-morrow," said I.
I think I shall try and put the notion into my Aunt Kezia's head to have the Bracewells here for Christmas. I know Angus and Flora will be here then, and later. That would make a decent party, if we got Ephraim Hebblethwaite, and Ambrose Catterall too. After all, I went on writing so late, that I only got down-stairs in time to see Ambrose Catterall's back as he went down the drive.
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