Hazleby,' said Anne; 'I really could not help
it, Mamma, and I do not think I began it.'
'Began what?' said Sir Edward.
'Why, Mamma was afraid I should seem to set Lizzie against her step-
mother's relations, if I quizzed them or abused them,' said Anne.
'I do not think what you could say would make much difference in
Lizzie's opinion of them,' said Sir Edward, 'but certainly I should
think they were not the best subjects of conversation here.'
'But I have not told you of the grand catastrophe,' said Anne; 'we
have found poor Fido drowned among the bulrushes.'
'I hope Mrs. Woodbourne will be happy again,' said Lady Merton.
'And, Mamma, he must have fallen in while we were at the Mechanics'
Institute,' said Anne; 'there is one bad consequence of our folly
already.'
'I cannot see what induced you to go,' said Sir Edward; 'I thought
Lizzie had more sense.'
'I believe the actual impulse was given by a dispute between Lizzie
and me on the date of chivalry,' said Anne.
'And so Rupert's friends, the Turners, are great authorities in
history,' said Sir Edward; 'I never should have suspected it.
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