'
'Your memory is good enough for what pleases yourself,' said Mr.
Woodbourne; 'you have been for some time past filling your head with
vanity and gossipping, without making the slightest attempt to
improve yourself or strengthen your mind, and this is the
consequence. However, this you will remember if you please, that it
is my desire that you associate no more with that silly chattering
girl, Miss Turner, than your sisters do. You know that I never
approved of your making a friend of her, but you did not choose to
listen to any warnings.'
Katherine well knew that her father had often objected to her
frequently going to drink tea with the Turners, and had checked her
for talking continually of her friend; and anyone not bent on her own
way would have thought these hints enough, but as they were not given
with a stern countenance, or in a peremptory manner, she had paid no
attention to them. Now, she could not be brought to perceive what
her fault really had been, but only sobbed out something about its
being very hard that she should have all the scolding, when it was
Lizzie's scheme, not hers.
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