"I wouldn't say it, then," said Sam. "I wouldn't say it only to look
better to Ida." With which words he and Hal walked off to the
garden.
Would it be believed? Susan, in her delight at being near the end,
forgot the grand huntsman, and made the unlucky Place "Grovesnor,"
and then, in her haste to mend it, put her finger into the wet ink,
and smeared not only that word, but all the line above!
It was a shame and a wonder that a girl of her age should be so
incapable of producing a creditable note; and Miss Fosbrook was very
near scolding her but she had pity on the tearful eyes and weary
fingers, and spoke cheerfully: "There, that was almost the thing.
One more trial, Susan, and you need never be afraid of Ida's notes
again."
If Susan could not write notes, at least she was not cross; and it
would be well if many who could send off a much better performance
with far less difficulty could go to work as patiently as she did,
without one pettish word to Miss Fosbrook, though that lady seemed to
poor Susie as hard a task mistress as if she could have helped it.
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