4d. a pound for it, at Johnson’s—(sister says I ought to have told her the price of our company-tea, which is 5s. a pound, only that is not what we were drinking; for, as ill-luck would have it, we’d none of it in the house)—and she said she would send us some of hers, all the way from Russia or Prussia, or some out-of-the-way place, and we were to compare and see which we liked best; and if we liked hers best, she could get it for us at 3s. a pound. And she left her love for you; and, though she was going away, you were not to forget her. Sister thought such a message would set you up too much, and told me she would not be chargeable for the giving it you. ‘But,’ I said, ‘a message is a message, and it’s on Molly’s own shoulders if she’s set up by it. Let us show her an example of humility, sister, though we have been sitting cheek-by-jowl in such company.’ So sister humphed, and said she’d a headache, and went to bed. And now you may tell me your news, my dear.”

So Molly told her small events; which, interesting as they might have been at other times to the gossip- loving and sympathetic Miss Phœbe, were rather pale in the stronger light reflected from the visit of an earl’s daughter,


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