At Dykelands there were Fanny and Jane.'
'I should not have thought a person with four sisters need complain
of having to learn alone,' said her aunt.
'No more should I,' said Helen; 'but if you were here always, you
would see how it is; Lizzie is always busy with the children, and
learns her German and Latin no one knows when or how, by getting up
early, and reading while she is dressing, or while the children are
learning. She picks up knowledge as nobody else can; and Kate will
only practise or read to Mamma, and she is so desultory and
unsettled, that I cannot go on with her as I used before I went to
Dykelands; and Dora--I see I ought to take to her, but I am afraid to
do so--I do not like it.'
'So it appears,' said Lady Merton.
'I should think it the most delightful thing!' cried Anne.
'You two are instances of the way in which people wish for the
advantages they have not, and undervalue those they have,' said Lady
Merton, smiling.
'Advantages!' repeated Helen.
'Why, do not you think it an advantage to have sisters?' said Anne;
'I wish you would give some of them to me if you do not.
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