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o lift her from the pillion. She wished her 
sister Priscilla had come up at the same time behind the servant, for then 
she would have contrived that Mr. Godfrey should have lifted off Priscilla 
first, and, in the meantime, she would have persuaded her father to go 
round to the horse-block instead of alighting at the door-steps. It was 
very painful, when you had made it quite clear to a young man that you 
were determined not to marry him, however much he might wish it, that 
he would still continue to pay you marked attentions; besides, why didn't 
he always show the same attentions, if he meant them sincerely, instead 
of being so strange as Mr. Godfrey Cass was, sometimes behaving as if he 
didn't want to speak to her, and taking no notice of her for weeks and 
weeks, and then, all on a sudden, almost making love again? Moreover, it 
was quite plain he had no real love for her, else he would not let people 
have that to say of him which they did say. Did he suppose that Miss 
Nancy Lammeter was to be won by any man, squire or no squire, who led 
a bad life? That was not what she had been used to see in her own father, 
who was the soberest and best man in that country-side, only a little hot 
and hasty now and then, if things were not done to the minute. 
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All these thoughts rushed through Miss Nancy's mind, in their habitual 
succession, in the moments between her first sight of Mr. Godfrey Cass 
standing at the door and her own arrival there. Happily, the Squire came 
out too and gave a loud greeting to her father, so that, somehow, under 
cover of this noise she seemed to find concealment for her confusion and 
neglect of any suitably formal behaviour, while she was being lifted from 
the pillion by strong arms which seemed to find her ridiculously small 
and light. And there was the best reason for hastening into the house at 
once, since the snow was beginning to fall again, threatening an 
unpleasant journey for such guests as were still on the road. These were 
a small minority; for already the afternoon was beginning to decline, and 
there would not be too much time for the ladies who came from a 
distance to attire themselves in readiness for the early tea which was to 
inspirit them for the dance. 
There was a buzz of voices through the house, as Miss Nancy entered, 
mingled with the scrape of a fiddle preluding in the kitchen; but the 
Lammeters were guests whose arrival had evidently been thought of so 
much that it had been watched for from the windows, for Mrs. Kimble, 
who did the honours at the Red House on these great occasions, came 
forward to meet Miss Nancy in the hall, and conduct her up-stairs. Mrs. 
Kimble was the Squire's sister, as well as the doctor's wife—a double 
dignity, with which her diameter was in direct proportion; so that, a 
journey up-stairs being rather fatiguing to her, she did not oppose Miss 
Nancy's request to be allowed to find her way alone to the Blue Room, 
where the Miss Lammeters' bandboxes had been deposited on their 
arrival in the morning. 
There was hardly a bedroom in the house where feminine compliments 
were not passing and feminine toilettes going forward, in various stages, 
in space made scanty by extra beds spread upon the floor; and Miss 
Nancy, as she entered the Blue Room, had to make her little formal 
curtsy to a group of six. On the one hand, there were ladies no less 
important than the two Miss Gunns, the wine merchant's daughters from 
Lytherly, dressed in the height of fashion, with the tightest skirts and the 
shortest waists, and gazed at by Miss Ladbrook (of the Old Pastures) 
with a shyness not unsustained by inward criticism. Partly, Miss 
Ladbrook felt that her own skirt must be regarded as unduly lax by the 
Miss Gunns, and partly, that it was a pity the Miss Gunns did not show 
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that judgment which she herself would show if she were in their place, by 
stopping a little on this side of the fashion. On the other hand, Mrs. 
Ladbrook was standing in skull-cap and front, with her turban in her 
hand, curtsying and smiling blandly and saying, "After you, ma'am," to 
another lady in similar circumstances, who had politely offered the 
precedence at the looking-glass. 
But Miss Nancy had no sooner made her curtsy than an elderly lady 
came forward, whose full white muslin kerchief, and mob-cap round her 
curls of smooth grey hair, were in daring contrast with the puffed yellow 
satins and top-knotted caps of her neighbours. She approached Miss 
Nancy with much primness, and said, with a slow, treble suavity— 
"Niece, I hope I see you well in health." Miss Nancy kissed her aunt's 
cheek dutifully, and answered, with the same sort of amiable primness, 
"Quite well, I thank you, aunt; and I hope I see you the same." 
"Thank you, niece; I keep my health for the present. And how is my 
brother-in-law?" 
These dutiful questions and answers were continued until it was 
ascertained in detail that the Lammeters were all as well as usual, and 
the Osgoods likewise, also that niece Priscilla must certainly arrive 
shortly, and that travelling on pillions in snowy weather was unpleasant, 
though a joseph was a great protection. Then Nancy was formally 
introduced to her aunt's visitors, the Miss Gunns, as being the daughters 
of a mother known to their mother, though now for the first time 
induced to make a journey into these parts; and these ladies were so 
taken by surprise at finding such a lovely face and figure in an out-of-
the-way country place, that they began to feel some curiosity about the 
dress she would put on when she took off her joseph. Miss Nancy, whose 
thoughts were always conducted with the propriety and moderation 
conspicuous in her manners, remarked to herself that the Miss Gunns 
were rather hard-featured than otherwise, and that such very low dresses 
as they wore might have been attributed to vanity if their shoulders had 
been pretty, but that, being as they were, it was not reasonable to 
suppose that they showed their necks from a love of display, but rather 
from some obligation not inconsistent with sense and modesty. She felt 
convinced, as she opened her box, that this must be her aunt Osgood's 
opinion, for Miss Nancy's mind resembled her aunt's to a degree that 
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everybody said was surprising, considering the kinship was on Mr. 
Osgood's side; and though you might not have supposed it from the 
formality of their greeting, there was a devoted attachment and mutual 
admiration between aunt and niece. Even Miss Nancy's refusal of her 
cousin Gilbert Osgood (on the ground solely that he was her cousin), 
though it had grieved her aunt greatly, had not in the least cooled the 
preference which had determined her to leave Nancy several of her 
hereditary ornaments, let Gilbert's future wife be whom she might. 
Three of the ladies quickly retired, but the Miss Gunns were quite 
content that Mrs. Osgood's inclination to remain with her niece gave 
them also a reason for staying to see the rustic beauty's toilette. And it 
was really a pleasure—from the first opening of the bandbox, where 
everything smelt of lavender and rose-leaves, to the clasping of the small 
coral necklace that fitted closely round her little white neck. Everything 
belonging to Miss Nancy was of delicate purity and nattiness: not a 
crease was where it had no business to be, not a bit of her linen professed 
whiteness without fulfilling its profession; the very pins on her 
pincushion were stuck in after a pattern from which she was careful to 
allow no aberration; and as for her own person, it gave the same idea of 
perfect unvarying neatness as the body of a little bird. It is true that her 
light-brown hair was cropped behind like a boy's, and was dressed in 
front in a number of flat rings, that lay quite away from her face; but 
there was no sort of coiffure that could make Miss Nancy's cheek and 
neck look otherwise than pretty; and when at last she stood complete in 
her silvery twilled silk, her lace tucker, her coral necklace, and coral ear-
drops, the Miss Gunns could see nothing to criticise except her hands, 
which bore the traces of butter-making, cheese-crushing, and even still 
coarser work. But Miss Nancy was not ashamed of that, for even while 
she was dressing she narrated to her aunt how she and Priscilla had 
packed their boxes yesterday, because this morning was baking morning, 
and since they were leaving home, it was desirable to make a good supply 
of meat-pies for the kitchen; and as she concluded this judicious remark, 
she turned to the Miss Gunns that she might not commit the rudeness of 
not including them in the conversation. The Miss Gunns smiled stiffly, 
and thought what a pity it was that these rich country people, who could 
afford to buy such good clothes (really Miss Nancy's lace and silk were 
very costly), should be brought up in utter ignorance and vulgarity. She 
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actually said "mate" for "meat",

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