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Updated: June 15, 2025
'Ah yes-I have thought more about it since then. 'I should have imagined that this would depend on what Patty thinks, said Miss Le Smyrger, standing up for the privileges of her sex. 'It is presumed that the gentleman is always ready as soon as the lady will consent. 'Yes, in ordinary cases it is so; but when a girl is taken out of her own sphere 'Her own sphere!
There was but little more said about the matter between our three friends at Oxney Colne. What, indeed, could be said? Miss Le Smyrger for a year or two still expected that her nephew would return and claim his bride; but he has never done so, nor has there been any correspondence between them. Patience Woolsworthy had learned her lesson dearly.
All that was said may be here repeated. 'John says that he shall return here in August, Miss Le Smyrger said as Patience was sitting with her in the parlour at Oxney Colne, on the morning after that gentleman's departure. 'He told me so himself, said Patience; and as she spoke her round dark eyes assumed a look of more than ordinary self-will.
She had lost her mother when she was sixteen, and had had neither brother nor sister. She had no neighbours near her fit either from education or rank to interfere in the conduct of her life, excepting always Miss Le Smyrger.
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