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lso 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", "'appen" for "perhaps", and "oss" for 
"horse", which, to young ladies living in good Lytherly society, who 
habitually said 'orse, even in domestic privacy, and only said 'appen on 
the right occasions, was necessarily shocking. Miss Nancy, indeed, had 
never been to any school higher than Dame Tedman's: her acquaintance 
with profane literature hardly went beyond the rhymes she had worked 
in her large sampler under the lamb and the shepherdess; and in order 
to balance an account, she was obliged to effect her subtraction by 
removing visible metallic shillings and sixpences from a visible metallic 
total. There is hardly a servant-maid in these days who is not better 
informed than Miss Nancy; yet she had the essential attributes of a 
lady—high veracity, delicate honour in her dealings, deference to others, 
and refined personal habits,—and lest these should not suffice to 
convince grammatical fair ones that her feelings can at all resemble 
theirs, I will add that she was slightly proud and exacting, and as 
constant in her affection towards a baseless opinion as towards an erring 
lover. 
The anxiety about sister Priscilla, which had grown rather active by the 
time the coral necklace was clasped, was happily ended by the entrance 
of that cheerful-looking lady herself, with a face made blowsy by cold and 
damp. After the first questions and greetings, she turned to Nancy, and 
surveyed her from head to foot—then wheeled her round, to ascertain 
that the back view was equally faultless. 
"What do you think o' these gowns, aunt Osgood?" said Priscilla, while 
Nancy helped her to unrobe. 
"Very handsome indeed, niece," said Mrs. Osgood, with a slight increase 
of formality. She always thought niece Priscilla too rough. 
"I'm obliged to have the same as Nancy, you know, for all I'm five years 
older, and it makes me look yallow; for she never will have anything 
without I have mine just like it, because she wants us to look like sisters. 
And I tell her, folks 'ull think it's my weakness makes me fancy as I shall 
look pretty in what she looks pretty in. For I am ugly—there's no denying 
that: I feature my father's family. But, law! I don't mind, do you?" 
Priscilla here turned to the Miss Gunns, rattling on in too much 
preoccupation with the delight of talking, to notice that her candour was 
not appreciated. "The pretty uns do for fly-catchers—they keep the men 
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off us. I've no opinion o' the men, Miss Gunn—I don't know 
what you have. And as for fretting and stewing about what they'll think 
of you from morning till night, and making your life uneasy about what 
they're doing when they're out o' your sight—as I tell Nancy, it's a folly no 
woman need be guilty of, if she's got a good father and a good home: let 
her leave it to them as have got no fortin, and can't help themselves. As I 
say, Mr. Have-your-own-way is the best husband, and the only one I'd 
ever promise to obey. I know it isn't pleasant, when you've been used to 
living in a big way, and managing hogsheads and all that, to go and put 
your nose in by somebody else's fireside, or to sit down by yourself to a 
scrag or a knuckle; but, thank God! my father's a sober man and likely to 
live; and if you've got a man by the chimney-corner, it doesn't matter if 
he's childish—the business needn't be broke up." 
The delicate process of getting her narrow gown over her head without 
injury to her smooth curls, obliged Miss Priscilla to pause in this rapid 
survey of life, and Mrs. Osgood seized the opportunity of rising and 
saying— 
"Well, niece, you'll follow us. The Miss Gunns will like to go down." 
"Sister," said Nancy, when they were alone, "you've offended the Miss 
Gunns, I'm sure." 
"What have I done, child?" said Priscilla, in some alarm. 
"Why, you asked them if they minded about being ugly—you're so very 
blunt." 
"Law, did I? Well, it popped out: it's a mercy I said no more, for I'm a 
bad un to live with folks when they don't like the truth. But as for being 
ugly, look at me, child, in this silver-coloured silk—I told you how it 'ud 
be—I look as yallow as a daffadil. Anybody 'ud say you wanted to make a 
mawkin of me." 
"No, Priscy, don't say so. I begged and prayed of you not to let us have 
this silk if you'd like another better. I was willing to have your choice, 
you know I was," said Nancy, in anxious self-vindication. 
"Nonsense, child! you know you'd set your heart on this; and reason 
good, for you're the colour o' cream. It 'ud be fine doings for you to dress 
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yourself to suit my skin. What I find fault with, is that notion o' yours as 
I must dress myself just like you. But you do as you like with me—you 
always did, from when first you begun to walk. If you wanted to go the 
field's length, the field's length you'd go; and there was no whipping you, 
for you looked as prim and innicent as a daisy all the while." 
"Priscy," said Nancy, gently, as she fastened a coral necklace, exactly like 
her own, round Priscilla's neck, which was very far from being like her 
own, "I'm sure I'm willing to give way as far as is right, but who shouldn't 
dress alike if it isn't sisters? Would you have us go about looking as if we 
were no kin to one another—us that have got no mother and not another 
sister in the world? I'd do what was right, if I dressed in a gown dyed 
with cheese-colouring; and I'd rather you'd choose, and let me wear what 
pleases you." 
"There you go again! You'd come round to the same thing if one talked to 
you from Saturday night till Saturday morning. It'll be fine fun to see 
how you'll master your husband and never raise your voice above the 
singing o' the kettle all the while. I like to see the men mastered!" 
"Don't talk so, Priscy," said Nancy, blushing. "You know I don't mean 
ever to be married." 
"Oh, you never mean a fiddlestick's end!" said Priscilla, as she arranged 
her discarded dress, and closed her bandbox. "Who shall I have to work 
for when father's gone, if you are to go and take notions in your head and 
be an old maid, because some folks are no better than they should be? I 
haven't a bit o' patience with you—sitting on an addled egg for ever, as if 
there was never a fresh un in the world. One old maid's enough out o' 
two sisters; and I shall do credit to a single life, for God A'mighty meant 
me for it. Come, we can go down now. I'm as ready as a mawkin can be—
there's nothing awanting to frighten the crows, now I've got my ear-
droppers in." 
As the two Miss Lammeters walked into the large parlour together, any 
one who did not know the character of both might certainly have 
supposed that the reason why the square-shouldered, clumsy, high-
featured Priscilla wore a dress the facsimile of her pretty sister's, was 
either the mistaken vanity of the one, or the malicious contrivance of the 
other in order to set off her own rare beauty. But the good-natured self-
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forgetful cheeriness and common-sense of Priscilla would so

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