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'Do you really think so?' interrupted Helen, who had lately felt
quite starved for want of praise.
'Yes,' said Anne, 'and so does everyone, and so Lizzie told me.'
'Lizzie?' said Helen; 'I thought she considered me as great a baby as
ever.'
'No, no, my dear,' said Anne; 'I will tell you what she said of you.
She said you were almost all she could wish in a sister, and that you
were quite a reflective creature; and that is high praise from her.'
'Well, if she thinks so,' said Helen, 'she does not shew it; she is
always making game of my opinions and feelings.'
'So she does of almost everyone's,' said Anne; 'but that is no proof
that she does not love them.'
'And she will never listen to anything that I say, or take interest
in anything I care for,' continued Helen.
'Indeed, Helen, you only think so because you do not understand her
ways,' said Anne; 'all last month she could think of nothing but the
Consecration, and Horace's going to school. Now all that is over and
you are quiet again, after we are gone you will get on capitally
together.


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