Why do you think it is, Miss
Fosbrook?"
"I don't think; I know it is because the great God has made one sort
of creature to be easily fed, and made good for poor people to live
upon," said Miss Fosbrook.
David's eyes were fixed on her as if he still had questions to ask,
and she was quite afraid of her powers of answering them, for he was
new in the world, and saw the strangeness of many things to which
older people become used by living with them, but which are not the
less strange for all that.
However, the trampling of many feet put an end to question and
answer, and the day's work had to begin with the Psalms, and reading
the Morning Lessons. Bessie was by far the best reader; and David
did very well, though he made very long stops to look deliberately at
any long new word, and could not bear to be told before he had
mastered it for himself. Even Susan was sadly given to gabbling and
missing the little words that she thought beneath her attention; and
the other two stumbled so horribly, that it was pain to hear them.
This beginning might be taken as the sign of how all would do their
lessons.
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