However, remembering her mother's story of Mrs. Staunton, she decided
that though it was a great misfortune for people to have such strange
fancies, yet their friends ought to respect them.
CHAPTER VII.
As soon as dinner was over, Elizabeth went up to her own room, and
was followed in a few moments by Anne, who found her putting on her
bonnet and cloak. 'Can you be going out in such weather as this?'
exclaimed she.
'Yes,' said Elizabeth; 'I must
"Let content with my fortunes fit,
Though the rain it raineth every day."'
'But what are the fortunes which oblige you to go out?' said Anne.
'The fortunes of an old woman to whom Kate or I read every Friday,'
said Elizabeth, 'and the fortunes of various young school-children,
who must be prepared for Papa or Mr. Walker to catechize in Church on
Sunday.'
'Why do not you send Kate or Helen, instead of murdering yourself in
the wet?' said Anne.
'Miss Kitty is three inches deep in the mysteries of a spencer, (I do
not mean Edmund,)' said Elizabeth, 'and it will not be out of her
head these three days, at least not till she has made Mamma's old
black satin gown into one after Harriet's pattern; I heard her asking
for it as I came up-stairs.
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