"Such nonsense!" she said to herself, as she crossed the hall alone,
there meeting with Rosamond, equipped for the village. "Is not Anne
going to-day?" she said, as she saw the pony-carriage at the door.
"No. It is so vexatious. She is so determined upon preaching to
the women, that I have been obliged to put a stop to it."
"Indeed! I should not have thought it of poor Anne; but no one can
tell what those semi-dissenters think right."
"When she declared she ought to do it in season or out of season,
what was one to do?" said Cecil.
"I thought that was for clergymen," said Rosamond, hitting the right
nail on the head in her ignorance, as so often happened.
"She sees no difference," said Cecil. "Shall I drive you down?" she
added graciously, according to the fashion of uniting with one
sister-in-law against the other; and Rosamond not only accepted, but
asked to be taken on to Willansborough, to buy a birthday present
for her brother Terry, get stamps for an Indian letter, and perform
a dozen more commissions that seemed to arise in her mind with the
opportunity.
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