long holiday, if we go. But I’m afraid it is a long “if.”’
Now Dixon did not like this speech. In the first place, she did not like Margaret’s trick of calling her ‘dear old Dixon’ whenever she was particularly demonstrative. She knew that Miss Hale was apt to call all people that she liked ‘old,’ as a sort of term of endearment; but Dixon always winced away from the application of the word to herself, who, being not much past fifty, was, she thought, in the very prime of life. Secondly, she did not like being so easily taken at her word; she had, with all her terror, a lurking curiosity about Spain, the Inquisition, and Popish mysteries. So, after clearing her throat, as if to show her willingness to do away with difficulties, she asked Miss Hale, whether she thought if she took care never to see a priest, or enter into one of their churches, there would be so very much danger of her being converted? Master Frederick, to be sure, had gone over unaccountable.
‘I fancy it was love that first predisposed him to conversion,’ said Margaret, sighing.
‘Indeed, Miss!’ said Dixon; ‘well! Everton Barn I can preserve myself from priests, and from churches; but love steals in unawares! I think it’s as well I should not go.’
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