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'And you mean to put up with it, mamma?' she said

'What can we do,to be cheated and swindled and have ain I have always behaved well to hi about theot into sootto be done I always do it I have written his letters for him till I have been sick, and when you were ill I never asked him to stay out with us after two or half-past two at the latest And now he tells me that I am to eat my meals up in my bedroom because I remind him that he distinctly promised to take us back to London! Did he not promise, mamma?'

'I understood so,now heto keep ht for the sake of the family, and then be treated in that way'

'You do that for your own sake, I suppose,' said her sister

'It is more than you've been able to do for anybody's sake,' said Georgiana, alluding to a very old affair to an ancient flirtation, in the course of which the elder daughter had made a foolish and a futile atteoons whose private fortune was very moderate Ten years had passed since that, and the affair was never alluded to except in ht as you have,' said Sophia 'It's easy enough to be straight, when a person never cares for anybody, and nobody cares for a person'

'My dears, if you quarrel what am I to do?' said their iana 'Does he expect e Whitstable is not much; but there is nobody else at all'

'You may have him if you like,' said Sophia, with a chuck of her head

'Thank you, my dear, but I shouldn't like it at all I haven't co aith soe Whitstable; you may be sure of that I'll tell you what I shall do,--I rite papa a letter I suppose he'll condescend to read it If he won't take me up to town himself, he ry in the whole thing is that we should have condescended to be civil to the Mels, but to have them here was terrible!'