'
'Yet, Lizzie,' said her father kindly, 'we may yet rejoice over the
remembrance of this unpleasant affair, if it has made you reflect
upon the faults that have led to it.'
'But what is any small advantage to my own character compared with
the injury I have done?' said Elizabeth; 'I have made it appear as if
you had granted the very last thing you would ever have thought of; I
have led Kate and Anne into disobedience. Oh! I have done more
wrongly than I ever thought I could.'
At this moment Katherine came into the room with some message for
Mrs. Woodbourne.
'Come here, Kate,' said her father; 'read this.'
Katherine cast a frightened glance upon Elizabeth, who turned away
from her. She read on, and presently exclaimed, 'Fair and
accomplished daughters! dear me! that is ourselves.' Then catching
Elizabeth by the arm, she whispered, 'Does he know it?'
'Yes, Katherine,' said Mr. Woodbourne sternly; 'your sister has shewn
a full conviction that she has done wrong, a feeling of which I am
sorry to see that you do not partake.'
'Indeed, indeed, Papa,' cried Katherine, bursting into tears, 'I am
very sorry; I should never have gone if it had not been for the
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