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It occurred only an hour ago, and the whole thing is distinctly remembered. I called in to see Mrs. Comegys, and while I was there, the bundle of goods came home. I was present when she opened it, and she showed me the lawn dress it contained. There were twelve yards in it. 'I must see if there is good measure, she said, and she got a yard-stick and measured it off.
It seems to arise from a consciousness of our own imperfections and the pleasure we feel in making the discovery that others are as bad, if not worse than we are. Two days after Mrs. Comegys had called on Mrs.
On tracing, with some labor, the report to its origin, I am grieved to find that it is too true." "Please say what it is," said Mrs. Comegys, in a firm voice.
Comegys can never be to me what she has been. That is impossible." "Of course you will not speak of it again." "You need have no fear of that." A few days after, Mrs. Raynor made a call upon a friend, who said to her, "Have you heard about Mrs. Comegys?" "What about her?" "I supposed you knew it. I've heard it from half a dozen persons.
Y had a great deal of trouble with her, and, in several cases, paid handsomely to induce parties disposed to prosecute her for theft, to let the matter drop. Now do you know that it has occurred to me that, perhaps, Mrs. Comegys is afflicted in this way? I shouldn't at all wonder if it were so." "Hardly." "I'm afraid it is as I suspect.
Still, as any thing that prejudices the minds of people against us, tends to destroy our usefulness, it is our duty to take all proper care of our reputations, even to the sacrifice of a little feeling in doing so." Thus argued with by her husband, Mrs. Comegys, after turning the matter over in her mind, finally concluded to go and see Mrs. Markle.
Comegys measure it, and heard her say that she meant to keep it." "Which she has done. For I saw her in the street, yesterday, with a beautiful new lawn, and her little Julia was with her, wearing one precisely like it." "How any woman can do so is more than I can understand." "So it is, Mrs. Raynor. Just to think of dressing your child up in a frock as good as stolen! Isn't it dreadful?"
"Did you tell it to any one?" "No. It was but a little while afterward that it was told to me by some one else." "Was it mentioned to you, Mrs. Florence?" proceeded Mrs. Comegys, turning to another of the ladies present. "It was, ma'am." "By Mrs. Grimes?" "Yes, ma'am." "In confidence, I suppose?"
Grimes bristled up like certain animals, which are good at running and skulking, but which, when fairly trapped, fight desperately. "Telling it to a thousand is not half as bad as doing it, Mrs. Comegys," she said, angrily. "You needn't try to screen yourself from the consequences of your wrong doings, by raising a hue and cry against me. Go to the fact, madam!
Not more than half an hour after the departure of Mrs. Comegys, Mrs. Grimes called in to see Mrs. Markle. "I hope," she said, shortly after she was seated, "that you won't say a word about what I told you a few days ago; I shouldn't have opened my lips on the subject if you hadn't asked me about it.
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