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"Fourteen I was in a naughty fit at her refusing to go to the great

o to stay at one of the

canon's houses for it, a house where one was dull and shy; and I could

not bear going without her, nor understand the reason"

"And was there a reason?"

"Yes, poor dear Ermine She knew he ht it would not be right; because his father had objected so

strongly, and n service"

"And you did not know this?"

"No, I ay all the ti masters in London I did not come home till it was all over, and

then I could not understand as the matter with the house, or why

Ermine was unlike herself, and papa restless and anxious about her They

thoughtto be told, and the atmosphere made me cross and

fretful, and papa was displeased with ood; poor patient Erine the disconorance all

the tied to tellherself and trying to make me enjoy my holidays as

usual, till this dreadful day, when I had worried her intolerably about

going to thisonly made me worse