“but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.” Then, showing her purchases — ”Look here, I have bought this bonnet.

I do not think it is very pretty; but I thought I might as well buy it as not. I shall pull it to pieces as soon as I get home, and see if I can make it up any better.”

And when her sisters abused it as ugly, she added, with perfect unconcern, “Oh! but there were two or three much uglier in the shop; and when I have bought some prettier-coloured satin to trim it with fresh, I think it will be very tolerable. Besides, it will not much signify what one wears this summer, after the — — shire have left Meryton, and they are going in a fortnight.”

“Are they indeed!”