Oh! Anne, I can hardly bear to think of the stern
kindness of his voice when he saw I was really quite wretched. And
only think how kind it was in him, he spoke seriously to me, he
shewed me that building the church, helping our poor people, even
Mamma's comforts, and the boys' education, depend upon home economy;
and how even I could make a difference by not wasting my clothes, and
making another servant necessary.'
'Then could you really gain neat habits immediately?' asked Anne;
'there could be no doubt of your resolving to do so, but few people
could or would persevere.'
'Oh! I am not properly tidy now,' said Elizabeth, opening a most
chaotic table-drawer, 'see, there is a proof of it. However, I do
not think I have been shamefully slovenly in my own person since that
explosion, and I have scarcely been spoken to about it. Who could
disregard such an appeal? But, Anne, are you not enchanted with
sweet Mrs. Hazleby?'
'I wish you would not ask me, Lizzie,' said Anne, feeling very
prudent, 'you know that I know nothing of her.'
'No, and you never will know enough of her to say such savage things
as I do,' said Elizabeth, 'but at any rate you saw her when she came
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