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I am the judge of mine , and certainly shall do what I think right . '' She rang accordingly , and ordered that her carriage should be at the door at six o'clock in the morning . `` Nay , my dear Esther , '' persisted Cecilia , `` I wish you would not decide so suddenly ; we were so glad to have you come to us -- '' `` Glad ! why you know -- '' `` I know , '' interrupted Lady Cecilia , colouring , and she began as fast as possible to urge every argument she could think of to persuade Miss Clarendon ; but no arguments , no entreaties of hers or the general 's , public or private , were of any avail , -- go she would , and go she did at six o'clock . `` I suppose , '' said Helen to Lady Davenant , `` that Miss Clarendon is very estimable , and she seems to be very clever : but I wonder that with all her abilities she does not learn to make her manners more agreeable . '' `` My dear , '' said Lady Davenant , `` we must take people as they are ; you may graft a rose upon an oak , but those who have tried the experiment tell us the graft will last but a short time , and the operation ends in the destruction of both ; where the stocks have no common nature , there is ever a want of conformity which sooner or later proves fatal to both . '' But Beauclerc , what was become of him ?