Depend upon it, however wretched and miserable hard application to
what we do not like may seem at the moment, it is the only way to
make play-times really delicious.
CHAPTER IX.
Miss Fosbrook soon knew what Mrs. Merrifield meant by saying that
visits at the Park unsettled the children. Susan indeed, though
liking anything that shortened lessons by an hour, and made a change,
was not so fond of being on her good behaviour at the Park as to be
greatly exalted at the prospect; but Elizabeth and Annie were changed
beings. They were constantly breaking out with some new variety of
wonder. They wondered whether they should dine in the school-room,
or at Mrs. Greville's luncheon; they wondered if Mr. Greville would
speak to them; they wondered whether Fraulein Munsterthal would be
cross; they wondered if Ida still played with dolls; and they looked
as if they thought themselves wonderful, too, for going out for a
day!
Nay, the wonders were at their tongues' end even when lessons began,
and put their farthings in great peril; and when they had nothing
else to wonder at, they wondered when it would be twelve o'clock, and
took no pains to swallow enormous yawns.
Pages:
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149