There,
the bell has stopped."
CHAPTER IV.
The most part of church-time Johnnie was eating Nurse Freeman's plum-
cake. Perhaps this did not make him any easier in the conscience,
but he had a very unlucky sentiment, that as he was already naughty
and in disgrace, it was of no use to take the trouble of being good
till he could make a fresh beginning; and after what the Grevilles
had said, he did not think that would be till Papa and Mamma came
home; he did not at all mean to give in to a girl that was not even
twenty. So he would not turn to the only wise thing he could have
done, the learning of his Collect, but he teased Nurse out of more
cake and more, and got what play he could out of little George, and
that was not much, for Johnnie was not in a temper to be pleasant
with a little one.
Coming home from church, Collects were to be learnt and said before
tea: but Hal, after glancing over his own, took up his cap and said,
"Come along, Sam, Purday will be feeding the pigs; I want to choose
the size of ours."
"I've not done," said Sam.
"Papa never said we were to say them to Miss Fosbrook.
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