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"La, miss," said Sarah, "it's only behind; nobody will notice it."
"How can they help it? Mamma! _am_ I deformed?"
Mrs. Dodd smiled superior and bade her be calm: "It is the lacing, dear.
No, Sarah, it is no use your _pulling_ it; all the pulling in the world
will not straighten it. I thought so: you have missed the second top
hole."
Julia's little foot began to beat a tattoo on the floor: "There is not a
soul in the house but you can do the simplest thing. Eyes and no eyes!
Fingers and no fingers! I never did."
"Hush, love, we all do our best."
"Oh, I am sure of that; poor things."
_"Nobody_ can lace you if you fidget about love," objected Mrs. Dodd.
(Bump)! "Now I don't want to hurry any man's cattle: but the bridesmaids
are come."
"Oh dear, I shall never be ready in time," said Julia; and the tattoo
recommenced.
"Plenty of time, love," said Mrs. Dodd, quietly lacing: "not half-past
ten yet. Sarah, go and see if the bridegroom has arrived."
Sarah returned with the reassuring tidings that the bridegroom had not
yet arrived; though the carriages had.


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