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Then the Coverdales were cousins of the Garrows, and they had usually been there as children. At the Christmas last past the custom had been broken, for young Holmes had been abroad. Previous to that, they had all been children, excepting him. But now that they were to meet again, they were no longer children. Elizabeth, at any rate, was not so, for she had already counted nineteen winters.
Bessy made no immediate answer with either her eyes or tongue; but when the Coverdales were gone, she took her new friend to task. "How can you fill those young girls' heads with such nonsense?" "Nature has done that, my dear." "But nature should be trained; should it not? You will make them think that those foolish boys are in love with them."
Could she have been alone with her mother, the struggle would not have been so painful; but there was the necessity that she should talk to Isabella Holmes, and the necessity also that she should not neglect the Coverdales. Nothing could have been kinder than Bella. She did not speak on the subject till the morning of the last day, and then only in a very few words.
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