In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign

           WhenMissSharphadperformedtheheroicalactmentionedinthelastchapter,andhadseentheDixonary,flyingoverthepavementofthelittlegarden,fallatlengthatthefeetoftheastonishedMissJemima,theyounglady’scountenance,whichhadbeforewornanalmostlividlookofhatred,assumedasmilethatperhapswasscarcelymoreagreeable,andshesankbackinthecarriageinaneasyframeofmind,saying"SomuchfortheDixonary;and,thankGod,I’moutofChiswick."

           MissSedleywasalmostasflurriedattheactofdefianceasMissJemimahadbeen;for,consider,itwasbutoneminutethatshehadleftschool,andtheimpressionsofsixyearsarenotgotoverinthatspaceoftime.Nay,withsomepersonsthoseawesandterrorsofyouthlastforeverandever.Iknow,forinstance,anoldgentlemanofsixty-eight,whosaidtomeonemorningatbreakfast,withaveryagitatedcountenance,"IdreamedlastnightthatIwasfloggedbyDr.Raine."Fancyhadcarriedhimbackfive-and-fiftyyearsinthecourseofthatevening.Dr.Raineandhisrodwerejustasawfultohiminhisheart,then,atsixty-eight,astheyhadbeenatthirteen.IftheDoctor,withalargebirch,hadappearedbodilytohim,evenattheageofthreescoreandeight,andhadsaidinawfulvoice,"Boy,takedownyourpant"?Well,well,MissSedleywasexceedinglyalarmedatthisactofinsubordination.

           "Howcouldyoudoso,Rebecca?"atlastshesaid,afterapause.

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