"It seems to me, Dorothea," she said, "that you are mistaken there.
But, Dorothea, there was some one else over there besides Mrs. Sturt, and he kept us."
By his side sate Augusta, and on the same seat with me were your Mother and Lady Dorothea.
"Oh! my Isabel (continued I throwing myself across Lady Dorothea into her arms) receive once more to your Bosom the unfortunate Laura.
Though Rachel spoke no triumph, there was a triumph in her eye, which prevented almost the possibility of such yielding on the part of Dorothea.
The farmer had come in and had joked his joke, and Mrs. Sturt had clacked over them as though they were a brood of chickens of her own hatching; and Mrs. Ray had smiled and cried, and sobbed and laughed till she had become almost hysterical. Then she had jumped up from her seat, saying, "Oh, dear, what will Dorothea think has become of us?"