"Poor dear little
man! is Betty cross to him? There! there! come with Sue, and SHE'LL
get him something pretty."
"Susie, Susie, indeed it's only that I don't want him to spoil it,"
said Elizabeth, distressed.
"A foolish thing like that! Why, the only use of it is to please the
children; but you are just such a baby as he is," said Susan, still
pitying George.
"You had better put your things away, Bessie," said Miss Fosbrook,
interfering to stop the dispute; and as soon as Elizabeth was gone,
and George a little pacified by an ivory ribbon-measure out of Miss
Fosbrook's work-box, she observed to Susan, "My dear, you must not
let your love for the little ones make you unjust and unkind to
Bessie."
"She always is so unkind to them," said Susan resentfully.
"I don't think she feels unkindly; but if you tyrannize over her, and
force her to give way to them, you cannot expect her to like it."
"Mamma says the elder must give way to the younger," said Susan.
"You did not try whether she would give way."
"No, because I knew she wouldn't; and I could not have my little
Georgie vexed.
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