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Book, page 11 / 351 "And you are here to help her now," persisted Kate. "But I've got to fix up my clothes for the County Institute," said Nancy Ellen, "I'll be gone most of the summer." "I have just as much right to go as you had," said Kate. "Father and Mother both say you shall not go," answered her sister. "I suppose there is no use to remind you that I did all in my power to help you to your chance." "You did no more than you should have done," said Nancy Ellen. "And this is no more than you should do for me, in the circumstances," said Kate. "You very well know I can't! Father and Mother would turn me out of the house," said Nancy Ellen. "I'd be only too glad if they would turn me out," said Kate. "You can let me have the money if you like. Mother wouldn't do anything but talk; and Father would not strike you, or make you go, he always favours you." "He does nothing of the sort! I can't, and I won't, so there!" cried Nancy Ellen. "'Won't,'" is the real answer, 'so there,'" said Kate. She went into the cellar and ate some cold food from the cupboard and drank a cup of milk. Then she went to her room and looked over all of her scanty stock of clothing, laying in a heap the pieces that needed mending. She took the clothes basket to the wash room, which was the front of the woodhouse, in summer; built a fire, heated water, and while making it appear that she was putting the clothes to soak, as usual, she washed everything she had that was fit to use, hanging the pieces to dry in the building.
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