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was consumed with grief for her father. She had a
little room in the garret, where the maids heard her
walking and sobbing at night; but it was with rage,
and not with grief. She had not been much of a
dissembler, until now her loneliness taught her to
feign. She had never mingled in the society of
women: her father, reprobate as he was, was a man
of talent; his conversation was a thousand times more
agreeable to her than the talk of such of her own sex
as she now encountered. The pompous vanity of the
old schoolmistress, the foolish good-humour of her
sister, the silly chat and scandal of the elder girls,
and the frigid correctness of the governesses equally
annoyed her; and she had no soft maternal heart,
this unlucky girl, otherwise the prattle and talk of the
younger children, with whose care she was chiefly
entrusted, might have soothed and interested her;
but she lived among them two years, and not one was
sorry that she went away. The gentle tender-hearted
Amelia Sedley was the onl
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