It  will  be  an  education  for  the  child,  said  I,  only  being
with  her  cousins ;  if  Miss  Lee  taught  her  nothing,  she
would  learn  to  be  good  and  clever  from  them*"

**  I  hope  she  will  not  tease  my  poor  pug,"  said
Lady  Bertram :  <<  I  have  but  just  got  Julia  to  leave  it
alone."

<<  There  will  be  some  difficulty  in  our  way,  Mrs
Norris,"  observed  Sir  Thomas,  "  as  to  the  distinction
proper  to  be  made  between  the  girls  as  they  grow  up :
how  to  preserve  in  the  minds  of  my  daughters  the  con-
sciousness of  what  they  are,  without  making  them  think
too  lowly  of  their  cousin  ;  and  how,  without  depressing
her  spirits  too  far,  to  make  her  remember  that  she  is  not
a  Mlri  Bertram.  I  should  wish  to  see  them  very  good
friends,  and  would,  on  no  account,  authorize  in  my  girls
the  smallest  degree  of  arrogance  towards  their  relation  ;
but  still  they  cannot  be  equals.  Their  rank,  fortune,
rights,  and  expectations,  will  always  be  different.  It  is
a  point  of  great  delicacy,  and  you  must  assist  us  in  our
endeavours  to  choose  exacdy  the  right  line  of  conduct."
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Mrs  Norris  was  quite  at  nis  service ;  and  though  she
perfectly  agreed  with  him  as  to  its  being  a  most  difficult
thing,  encouraged  him  to  hope  that  between  them  it
would  be  easily  managed.
