"
"I will,--but, Miss Morton, it's going to be a very grand party. Everybody
in Elmbridge will be invited. I mean," she added, tossing her head,
"everybody that _is_ anybody."
"Everybody is somebody," said Reginald, without looking up from his book,
"and I wish you'd keep still, Ethelyn."
"Well, you know what I mean; everybody that's rich and important, and fit
for us to know."
"Why," said Patty, looking at her cousin in surprise, "aren't people fit
for you to know unless they're rich?"
"No," said Ethelyn, "I wouldn't associate with people unless they were
rich, and neither would you, Patricia."
"Yes, I would," said Patty, stoutly, "if they were good and wise and
refined, and they often are."
"Well, you can't associate with them while you're living with us, anyhow;
we only go with the swells."
"Ethelyn," said Miss Morton, gently, "that isn't the right way to talk. I
think--"
"Oh, never mind what you think," said Ethelyn, rudely, "you know the last
time you preached to me, I nearly made mamma discharge you, and I'll do it
for sure if you try it again.
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