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Rh for a walk with the governess, and then we know nobody in the town but uncle Robert and our cousins, and Miss Effingham won't allow us to go there half as often as we like, because she says we come home with more vulgar ways than before we went."

"Vulgar indeed!" said Mrs. Lindsay. "It doesna do to try to make gentlefolks of the like of you, if you're to be taught to look down on them as ought you. He's no more vulgar than your father, and that Miss Effingham kent richt weel when she took the both of you."

"Oh! but Uncle Robert lives in Adelaide, and you live out in the country ever so far, and that makes a difference. Oh! yes, we are bush girls, and of course we are set among the little ones in the classes, and we are sneered at if we speak about our father and mother, for it's papa and mamma with all the others. Oh, mother!" continued Isabel with a sigh, "it is hard work trying to be a lady. You're no to do this, and you're no to say that, and you're no to sit in this fashion, and no to walk that gait. Phemie and me have a constant 'Don't do that, Miss Lindsay,' 'Don't express yourself thus, Miss Euphemia,' and so on from morning to night."

"And what the better will we be of it all?" remonstrated Phemie, "not a bit. I'd like to