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'I will answer for it that she will be happy enough,' said Rupert;
'she has been living on flummery for the last half-year, and you
cannot expect her to be contented with mutton-chops just at first.'
'Helen does not find so much fault with the mutton-chops as with the
pepper Lizzie adds to them,' said Anne.
'I should be sorry to live without pepper,' said Rupert.
'I am not so sure of that,' said Lady Merton.
'At least you do not wish to have enough to choke you,' said Anne;
'you must have it in moderation.'
'I think Lizzie is learning moderation,' said Lady Merton; 'she is
acquiring more command of impulse, and Helen more command of feeling,
so that I think there is little danger of their not agreeing.'
'Is it not curious, Mamma,' said Anne, 'that we should have been
talking of the necessity of self-control, just before we set out on
this visit, when I told you that line of Burns was your motto; and
now we find that the want of it is the reason of all that was wrong
between those two sisters. I wonder whether we could make out that
any more of the follies we saw in this visit were caused by the same
deficiency in anyone else.
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