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Helen, who, when at Dykelands, had been nearer the manufacturing districts, had heard more of the follies and mischiefs committed by some of the favourers of these institutions. Unfortunately, however, her temper had prevented her from reasoning calmly, and Elizabeth had wilfully blinded herself, and shut her ears to conviction, being determined to follow her own course.
Elizabeth was much gratified by her sister's voluntary proffer of assistance, for the head and front of Helen's offences on her return from Dykelands, had been, that she had loathed the idea of helping to train the screaming school-girls to sing in church, and had altogether shewn far less interest in parish matters than Elizabeth thought their due.
when in came Lizzie, and said, "No, Helen, Your heart is at Dykelands, your heart's in the bogs, Your heart is at Dykelands, gone chasing the frogs," for she is always laughing at it for being so damp, dear place. And it was before Horace went to school, and he would do nothing but sing it at me all day, and make Winifred do so too. Anne could not help laughing.
'Ah! she would not let you be smarter than her own girls, eh, Kitty? said Harriet, laughing. 'I had been obliged to buy a very nice new straw bonnet at Dykelands, said Helen, 'and it, would have been a pity not to use that. 'Well, I have no notion of a whole row of sisters being forced to dress alike, said Harriet; 'Aunt Mildred might
'But then you are not always sure of what they would say, replied Lucy; 'at least I am not, and it is not always possible to ask them. What did you do all the time you were at Dykelands? 'Oh! dear Mrs. Staunton was quite a mother to me, said Helen; 'and besides, it was as easy to think what would please Papa there as it is here. You were from home for some time last year, were you not, Lucy?
She picks up knowledge as nobody else can; and Kate will only practise or read to Mamma, and she is so desultory and unsettled, that I cannot go on with her as I used before I went to Dykelands; and Dora I see I ought to take to her, but I am afraid to do so I do not like it. 'So it appears, said Lady Merton. 'I should think it the most delightful thing! cried Anne.
I believe I should have done so, though I do not know that it would have been the best way, or in accordance with what you call my motto. 'Well, said Anne, 'if Dykelands has done such wonders for Helen, as they say, I hope I shall make friends with her, if she will let me, which I do not think I deserve after my ill-usage of her.
'Yes, said Lucy, 'I have heard what you say about those things before, but I never saw them in connection with each other. 'Nor should I have seen them in this light, if it had not been for a conversation between Captain Atherly and another gentleman, one day at Dykelands, said Helen.
'My dear Helen, what do you mean? exclaimed Anne, quite aghast. 'Indeed, Anne, said Helen, 'I do not wonder that you are shocked, but you do not know how I feel here. At Dykelands I felt that people liked me and were pleased with me, but at home nobody wants me, nobody cares for me, I am in the way wherever I go. 'My dear Helen, cried Anne, 'that must be fancy!
'At any rate, cried Rupert vigorously, 'do not make it appear as if I were the only individual with a tolerable opinion of my own advantages when Helen looks like the picture of offended dignity if you presume to say a syllable contrary to some of her opinions, or in disparagement of dear Dykelands; and Kate thinks herself the most lovely creature upon earth, and the only useful person in the house; and Harriet believes no one her equal in the art of fascination; and Mrs.
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