It would be as much too formal as hers was too blunt."
"Must I do it again?" said Susan. "I had rather not go, if it is to
be such a plague."
"Indeed, I fear you must, Susie. It is quite needful to learn how to
write a respectable note; really a more difficult thing than writing
a long letter. I am sorry for you; but if you were not so careless
in your letters to Mamma this would come more easily to you."
But this time Miss Fosbrook not only ruled another sheet, but wrote,
in fair large-hand on a slate, the words, that Susan might copy them
without fresh troubles:
We are much obliged to your Mamma for her kind invitation, and shall
have much pleasure in coming with Miss Fosbrook to dine with you and
spend the day. I am sorry to say that Mamma was not quite so well
when last we heard. Her address is--No. 12,--St., Grosvenor-place.
Susan thought that here were a very serious number of words, and
begged hard for leave to leave out her sorrow. Of course she was
sorry, but what was the use of telling Ida so?
Miss Fosbrook thought it looked better, but Susan might do as she
pleased.
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