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'But, Lizzie,' asked Anne, 'what have these unfortunate Hazlebys done
to offend you?'
'Done!' answered Elizabeth, 'oh! a thousand things, all too small to
be described, but together they amount to a considerable sum, I can
tell you. There has been a natural antipathy, an instinctive
dislike, between Mrs. Major Hazleby and me, ever since she paid her
first visit here, and, seeing me listening to something she was
saying to Mamma, she turned round upon me with that odious proverb,
"Little pitchers have long ears."'
'Perhaps she meant it as a compliment,' said Anne; 'you know, Mary of
Scotland says, that "Sovereigns ought to have long ears."'
'I suppose her son was of the same opinion,' said Elizabeth, 'when he
built his famous lug. As to Mrs. Hazleby, she is never happy but
when she is finding fault with someone. It will make you sick to
hear her scolding and patronizing poor Mamma.'
'She has been in India, has she not?' said Anne, in order to avoid
answering.
'Yes,' replied Elizabeth, 'she married the poor Major there, and the
eldest son was born there.


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