Lizzie herself
took care that the position in which she was received should be
sufficiently declared. "It seems so odd that I am to come among you as a
sister," she said. The girls were forced to assent to the claim, but they
assented coldly. "He has told me to attach myself especially to you," she
whispered to Augusta. The unfortunate chosen one, who had but little
strength of her own, accepted the position, and then, as the only means of
escaping the embraces of her newly-found sister, pleaded the violence of a
headache. "My mother," said Lizzie to Lady Fawn.
"Yes, my dear," said Lady Fawn. "One of the girls had perhaps better go up
and show you your room.--I am very much afraid about it," said Lady Fawn
to her daughter Amelia. Amelia replied only by shaking her head.
On the Tuesday morning there came a note from Lord Fawn to his lady love.
Of course the letter was not shown, but Lizzie received it at the
breakfast table, and read it with many little smiles and signs of
satisfaction. And then she gave out various little statements as having
been made in that letter. He says this, and he says that, and he is coming
here, and going there, and he will do one thing, and he won't do the
other.
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