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"This is a dreadful account you give me, and had I known what kind
of a place it was, I should hardly have ventured to come--But certainly
it cannot be as bad, as you make it out--no mother could act so."
"Well--well, you'll see--Poor people, whose children are never
out of their sight, have very different feelings for them let me
tell you, from rich, gay people, who don't see them an hour
in the day."--Why what time, now let me ask you, has such
a lady as Mrs Day, to look after her children. She gets up
as I tell you, at twelve or one--by the time she's drest, if there
'ant a parlour full of company, why she is out paying morning
visits, till most four oclock--then she comes in so tired, that she
throws herself on the soffa, till dinners ready, when she does not dine out--
by the time dinners over, it is time to begin to dress for
the evening--and nothing makes her so angry as to carry the