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Staunton always said it made me look like an old woman in the way I wore it before, so what could I do but try it in the way in which Fanny and Jane wore theirs? 'Oh! we must all bow before Dykelands, said Elizabeth. 'And I have been wondering what made you look so altered, Lizzie, said Lady Merton, 'and now I see it is your hair being straight. I like your curls better.
Staunton in Helen's imagination, and answered, 'And for that very reason, and for your sake too, Helen, she will delight to hear about Mrs. Staunton when you are quiet together, if you do not give her too much at a time, or talk of Dykelands when she is thinking of something else. Oh yes, Helen, you and Lizzie will be excellent friends, unless you are much more silly than I think either of you.
It was the first sympathy, as she considered, that she had met with since she had left Dykelands, and it atoned in her mind for various little thoughtless ways of Anne's, which had wounded her in former years, and which she had not perhaps striven sufficiently to banish from her memory; and this was a great advantage from this conversation, even if she derived no further benefit from it.
'I suppose, said Anne, 'that you have been so long away as to have lost all your old home occupations, and you have not yet had time to make new ones. 'Perhaps it is so, said Helen; 'but I do not think I had any occupations before I went to Dykelands, at least none worth having, and now I cannot make myself new ones.
'But you can tell what colour a rose is, persisted Katherine; 'now do not you think Helen will spoil her work with that orange-coloured rose? who ever heard of such a thing? Helen was on the point of saying that one of the gable-ends of the house at Dykelands was covered with a single rose of that colour, but she remembered that Dykelands was not a safe subject, and refrained.
'What! the loose strife? said Elizabeth, 'it is common enough in all damp places. Poor Helen! as if this slight to the flower she admired were not a sufficient shock to her feelings, Rupert, perfectly unconscious on what tender ground he was treading, said, 'If it is a lover of damp, I am sure it can nowhere be better suited than at Dykelands. Did you grow web-footed there, Helen?
Staunton used to say, replied Helen, 'that people always ought to keep up their connexion with their relations, whether they like them or not. There were some very stupid people, relations of Mr. Staunton's, near Dykelands, whom Fanny and Jane could not endure, but she used to ask them to dinner very often, and always made a point
'Only some Dykelands fancies about Socialists, said Elizabeth; 'that is the reason she has gone off like a tragedy queen. I did not think all Abbeychurch was ready for the French Revolution that was all. 'There, Lucy, you see, said Harriet; 'come along, there's a good girl. Here Mrs. Turner's page opened the door, and answered that his mistress was at home.
'How bright and well Helen looks! said Lady Merton; 'she seems to have been very happy at Dykelands. 'Very happy indeed, said Mrs. Woodbourne; 'I am sure we are exceedingly obliged to Mrs. Staunton for asking her. She has come back quite a different creature, and can speak of nothing but the kindness of her friends at Dykelands.
I think you used to be indolent and waste your senses, but now Dykelands has given you a spur, and you are very much improved. 'Do you really think so? interrupted Helen, who had lately felt quite starved for want of praise. 'Yes, said Anne, 'and so does everyone, and so Lizzie told me. 'Lizzie? said Helen; 'I thought she considered me as great a baby as ever.
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