"
Susan's honest eyes fill with tears, but she gulps them back. She
will not cry away another farthing, but she does feel it very cross
in Bessie, and she is universally miserable.
Christabel feels heated, wearied, and provoked, and as if she were
fast losing her own temper; and that made her resolve on mercy.
"Susie," she said with an effort, "run twice to the great lime-tree
and back. Then take the book into my room, read this over three
times, and we will try again."
Susan looked surprised, but she obeyed, came back, and repeated the
phrases better than she had ever said French before. She was
absolutely surprised and highly pleased, and she finished off her
other lessons swimmingly; but oh, she was glad to be rid of them!
Yes, they were off her mind, and so she deserved that they should be!
She flew away to the nursery, and little Sarah was soon crowing in
her arms.
Elizabeth? Not a blunder in French verbs or geography--very tidy
copy. French reading good; English equally so, only it ended in a
pout, because there was not time for her to go on to see what became
of Carthage; and she was a most intolerable time in learning her
poetry out of the book of Readings, or rather she much preferred
reading the verses in other parts of the book to getting perfect in
her lesson, and then being obliged to turn her mind to arithmetic.
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