was? If the
fine must be paid, there was no use in stopping; so Annie howled till
Miss Fosbrook turned her out to finish on the stairs; and as Nurse
Freeman was out with the little ones, there was no one to comfort
her; so she cried till she was tired, and when the noise ceased,
Susan was allowed to come and coax her, and fetch her back to go on
with her copy, as soon as her hand was steady enough. She felt very
foolish by this time, and thought David eyed her rather angrily and
contemptuously; so she crept quietly to her corner, and felt sad and
low-spirited all the rest of the morning. Now that thirty-three had
come into her head, it seemed so stupid not to have thought of it in
time; and then she would have saved her farthing, and her eyes would
not have been so hot.
Maybe, too, Susan's French phrases would not have been turned back.
Miss Fosbrook would have given a great deal not to have been obliged
to do it, but she had prompted flagrantly already, and a teacher is
obliged to have a conscience quite as much as a scholar; so the book
was given back, and Susan spent twelve minutes in see-sawing herself,
and going over the sentences in a rapid whispering gabble, a serious
worry to the governess in listening to Bessie's practising and
David's reading, but she thought it would be a hardship to be
forbidden to learn in her own way at that moment, and forbore.
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