got a notion once fixed in her mind she was, like other half-witted people, as obstinate as a mule in keeping it. We quarrelled finely, and

Mrs.

Clements, not liking to see it, I suppose, offered to take Anne away to live in London with her. I should have said Yes, if

Mrs.

Clements had not sided with my daughter about her dressing herself in white. But being determined she should

not