PREACHING AND PRACTICE.
"How long you have stayed, Dolly!" was Mrs. Copley's greeting. "I don't see what is to become of me in this lonely place, if you are always trotting about. I shall die!"
Dolly took this cold-water bath upon her pleasure with her usual sweetness.
"Dear mother, I did not know I was so long away. I will not go again, if it is bad for you."
"Of course it is bad for me. It is very bad for me. It is bad for anybody. I just think and think, till I am ready to fly.—What have you been doing?"
"Looking at Brierley House. So beautiful as it is, mother!"
This made a diversion. Mrs. Copley asked and received a detailed account of all Dolly had seen.
"It don't sound as if I should like it," was her comment. "I should never have those old chairs and things sticking about."
"O mother! yes, you would; they are most beautiful, and so old-fashioned; with the arms of the barons of Coppleby carved on them."
"I shouldn't want the arms of the barons of Coppleby on the chairs in my house, if I was the Earl of Brierley."