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No wonder there was so ht from home She wrote but briefly and scantily to her sister, not feeling as if she could give full confidence; she drifted away fro that, as a married woh in her religious ways, less scrupulous in attending to the children's lessons; and the general fret of her uncertainties told upon her temper with them They loved her heartily still, and she returned their affection, but she was not so uniforood-humoured Indeed since A, and it could not now be said that a whine, a quarrel, or a cry was a rare event Even the giving up my lady's wearisome piece of embroidery had scarcely a happy effect, for Aureliaof the task-work and the attention it required, and the unoccupied ti A little self-consequence too began to set in, longing for further recognition of the dignities of Madae had been notified to Lady Belamour and to Major Delavie, and letters had been received from each My Lady travelled to London early in April in company with Lady Aresfield, and, to the relief of the inmates of Bowstead, made no deviation thither No one else was officially told that the wedding had taken place, but all the village knew it; and Mrs Phoebe and Mrs Delia so resented it that they abandoned the state pew to Madam Belamour and the children, made their curtsies more perpendicularly than ever, and, when formally invited to supper, sent a pointed and cereered