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'That is only a little unconscious affectation of being wiser than
other people, assisted by living in a place where there are the usual
complement of dull people, and where her father's situation prevents
him from associating only with those whom he would prefer,' said Lady
Merton; 'her good sense will get the better of it. I am much more
anxious about this spirit of contradiction.'
'Yes, it certainly led her to be very unjust, as she acknowledged
this morning,' said Anne, 'and rather unkind to Helen. But then it
was no wonder that she was mad with the Hazlebys.'
Anne then told the history of poor Dora's trouble, and was quite
satisfied with her mother's displeasure at Mrs. Hazleby, and her
admiration of little Dora.
'And what do you think of Helen?' asked she presently.
'I can hardly tell,' said Anne, 'she is still very demure, with very
little of Lizzie's sparkling merriment; indeed, she does not seem in
the least able to enter into a joke. But then she said some very
sensible things. Lizzie said she wondered what we should think of
her.


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