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Sometimes when the
others are there, she gets vexed, and says things which I do not like
to hear, only for the sake of differing from them.'
'I have seen something of the kind about her before,' said Lady
Merton, 'but not enough to be unpleasant.'
'No, Mamma, because you do not talk as Miss Hazleby did yesterday,'
said Anne, smiling. 'She certainly did make a very ridiculous
oration about officers and flirtations; but Lizzie, instead of
putting a stop to it quietly and gently, only went into the other
extreme, and talked about disliking all society.'
'I am very sorry to hear this,' said Lady Merton; 'I am afraid she
will make herself absurd and disagreeable by this spirit of
contradiction, even if nothing worse comes of it.'
'It was not all out of a spirit of contradiction,' said Anne, 'though
she said this morning, that she was very tired and very cross
yesterday evening. But, Mamma, she also said that she thinks the
time she spends in company wasted, and she really believes that no
one dares to talk sense, or that if he does, everyone dislikes him.


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