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to be married before any of you; and then I would chaperon you about to all the balls. Dear
me! we had such a good piece of fun the other day at Colonel Forster's. Kitty and me were
to spend the day there, and Mrs. Forster promised to have a little dance in the evening; (by
the bye, Mrs. Forster and me are such friends!) and so she asked the two Harringtons to
come, but Harriet was ill, and so Pen was forced to come by herself; and then, what do you
think we did? We dressed up Chamberlayne in woman's clothes on purpose to pass for a
lady, only think what fun! Not a soul knew of it, but Colonel and Mrs. Forster, and Kitty
and me, except my aunt, for we were forced to borrow one of her gowns; and you cannot
imagine how well he looked! When Denny, and Wickham, and Pratt, and two or three more
of the men came in, they did not know him in the least. Lord! how I laughed! and so did
Mrs. Forster. I thought I should have died. And that made the men suspect something, and
annaabi.ee 
