human
Had you any of your borrowed things broken?--for I heard that you had to borrow nearly every thing,
gpt
Not any thing at all but two or three plates, which can easily be replaced,
human
I believe, said she,
gpt
Yes--a cousin of Mr. Smith's--Miss Sabina Incledon--
human
That's the name, interrupted Miss Debby, nodding;
gpt
The same, replied Mrs. Smith, feeling her consequence looking up;
human
Cousin Sabina is a very particular friend of Mrs. Morgan Silsbee, who for a long time had been soliciting the visit.
gpt
Then, surely, she could not have been the person you set to watching the kitchen and supper-room! Susan Goldsborough and Lydia Pendleton were talking about it, and repeating to each other what they overheard of a conversation between yourself and your husband, who seemed greatly shocked that you had done it. Susan Goldsborough remarked that if she had known that you had so little sense as to undervalue such a woman in that way, or so little feeling and good-breeding as to violate the laws of common hospitality and politeness so grossly, she would assuredly have declined the party for Julia when you proposed it to her.
human
What a misconstruction!--dear me--it was Cousin Sabina's wish--how strange a mistake.
gpt
It certainly is strange if they were so mistaken, and stranger still that a woman of so much dignity, and so accustomed to society as Miss Incledon, should have preferred watching your servants to taking her proper place among your guests. I thought to myself whilst they were talking, that it seemed hardly consistent with your usual way of doing things, to put upon such duty a person who in all probability would soon be Mrs. Colonel Raynor, and the aunt of Mrs. Morgan Silsbee. I shouldn't wonder if the match came off in a month.
human
Cousin Sabina likely to be married in a month!--and to Colonel Raynor!
gpt
Bless me! didn't you know the story? said Miss Debby, in her turn looking surprised;
human
It is getting late, said she,
gpt
If I had only given the party to Cousin Sabina!