"O Susie, you won't send such a thing as that up to Ida?"
"No--that WOULD be a 'horrible note,'" said her governess; and she
ruled the lines again.
"Dear me," said Susan impatiently; "can't one send a message up by
the man that we'll all come, without this fuss?"
But Miss Fosbrook said that would be very uncivil; and Susan,
groaning, stretched every finger till the lines were finished, and
began again, in her scraggy round-hand--getting safely through the
"should," and also through "like to come very much;" but when Miss
Fosbrook looked up next, she saw that the rest of the note consisted
of -
Mamma is at Grandmamma's, No. 12, St., Grovensor Place.
I am your affectionate
SUSANNA MERRIFIELD.
"My dear, I am very sorry."
"What! won't that do?" sighed Susan, beginning to get into despair.
Miss Fosbrook pointed to the word "Grovensor."
"Oh dear! oh dear! I thought I had got that tiresome word this time.
Why can't it put its ss and ns into their proper sensible places?"
cried poor Susan, to whom it was a terrible enemy. She used to try
them in different places all the way round, in hopes that one might
at last be right.
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