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For it must be understood that Betsey had no greater respect for the Carroll girls than her mistress. "Well, Aunt Carroll, how does the world use you?" "Very badly. You haven't been up to see me for ten days." "I haven't counted; but when I do come I don't often do any good. How are Minna, and Brenda, and Potsey?" "Poor Potsey has got a nasty boil under her arm."
"Why should he give her anything? He feeds her and gives her clothes. It is only fit that the truth should be explained to you. Girls so circumstanced, when they are clothed and fed by their own fathers, must be married without fortunes or must remain unmarried. As Sophie, and Georgina, and Minna, and Brenda come up, the same requests will be made." "Poor Potsey!" said the mother.
"But he's only to have four hundred pounds," said Sophia. "Your things are to be bought with the other fifty pounds." "I never can do it for fifty pounds," said Amelia. "I did not expect that I was to find my own trousseau out of my own fortune." "Girls, how can you be so ungrateful?" said their mother. "I'm not ungrateful, mamma," said Potsey.
For Potsey was a plain girl. "If this be done for Amelia, must it not be done for all of them? Papa is not a rich man, but he has been very generous. Is it fair to ask him for five hundred pounds to give to Mr. Juniper?" "A gentleman nowadays does not like not to get something." "Then a gentleman must go where something is to be got. The truth has to be told, Aunt Carroll.
Grey much good; but they seemed to have had some effect upon his daughter, from the fact that in the afternoon she wrote a letter in kindly words to her aunt: "Papa is going to Tretton, and I will come up to you on Tuesday. I have got a frock which I will bring with me as a present for Potsey; and I will make her sew on the buttons for herself. Tell Minna I will lend her that book I spoke of.
"I shall be very much obliged when I get my three hundred and fifty pounds. How long will it be?" "You've got to find the young man first, Potsey. I don't think you'll ever do that," said Georgina, who was rather proud of her own good looks. This took place on the evening of the day on which Mrs. Carroll had gone to London, where Mr.
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