Besides, if I had known, and had to tell, what a horrid
shame it would have been if the naval cadetship had been to be had
for him! I knew Bessie would have thought so too, and then he would
have been out of the way of the Grevilles, and would have got some
money to make it up."
"Then is there no chance of the cadetship now?"
"Oh, we should have heard of it long ago if there had been! So I
mind the coming out the less; but it's perfectly abominable to have
had all this row, and for Papa to be so cut up in this little short
time at home."
"I never saw him more grieved," said Mr. Merrifield. "He was hardly
more overcome when your mother was at the worst."
They started, for they had forgotten Uncle John, or they would never
have spoken so freely; but he now put down his newspaper, and looked
as if he meant to talk.
Susan ventured to say, "And indeed they had all been so very good
before. The pig made them so."
"A learned pig, I should think," said her uncle, laughing good-
naturedly.
"We were obliged to take care," said Susan, "or we got so many
fines.
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