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The afternoons were spent in Lady Teer britchska and pair, ruled over by a tyrannical

coachman, he had provided her with a herd of little anirooroaned and feared the establishhty; but for

the first time Rachel becaland," she said, "is that of coachmen, and it is well

that Fanny should be spared! The coachman who lived here when mamma was

o a little faster, 'I shall drive my

horses as I plazes,' and I really think the present one is rather worse

in deed, though not in word"

Moreover, Rachel smoothed down a little of Mrs Curtis's uneasiness at

Fanny's change of costuround that Colonel Keith advised her to ride with her sons,

and that this was incompatible eeds "And dear Sir Stephen did so

dislike the sight of them," she added, in her si to please him

"On the whole, mother," said Rachel, "unless there is more heart-break

than Fanny professes, there'sa cap that says, 'co about like other

people"

"I only wish she could help looking like a girl of seventeen," sighed

Mrs Curtis "If that colonel were butman!