Excerpt from Trials, Vol. 1 of 2: A Tale
"And a very judicious monition too of Miss Mathews," said Mr. Dorrington, her father. "I only wish that she had possessed authority enough to cause her counsels to be followed; and that you. Miss Dorrington, could be pursuaded into the manners of a gentlewoman."
"It is a sad thing, indeed, Catherine," said Lady Vincent, adding her remonstrances, "it is a very sad thing to see a girl of your age (for you are now in your sixteenth year,) - I say it is a very sad, and a very shocking thing, to find you so insensible to what ought to be the conduct and manners of a young woman of rank and fashion."
"Why what ought they to be aunt?" she inquired with a starting tear, and a cheek the pure vermillion of which was heightened with extreme vexation.
"Catherine, I desire that you don't interrupt your aunt, but attend to what she wishes to say to you," observed Mr. Dorrington; "and do, for heaven's sake, put that little beast of a dog down;" and he snatched him with violence from the lap of his poor little mistress, who, too much in terror of her father to rebel, sat in mute expectation of what she was to hear, trying from a variety of motives to suppress the tears, which could not, after all, be repelled; but which every now and then broke out in a stifled sob, as her aunt and her father alternately laid down to her the various duties of an elegant young gentlewoman; duties which, it must be confessed, poor Catherine was sadly remiss in performing.
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