"
"I will try," said Bessie. "And please, Papa, would you tell Nurse
about it? She doesn't half believe us, and she is so tiresome about
Miss Fosbrook!"
"Tiresome! what do you mean?"
"She always thinks what she does is wrong, and she puts nonsense into
Johnnie's head, and talks about favourites. Mary told Susan it was
jealousy."
The Captain spoke pretty strongly to Nurse Freeman that evening, but
it is doubtful if she were the better for it. She was a very good
woman in most things, but she could not bear that the children should
be under anyone but herself; and just as Henry lost the truth by
inaccuracy, she lost it by prejudice.
Miss Fosbrook was glad to get away from the dining-room, where it was
rather awful to sit without her work and be talked to by Mr.
Merrifield, even though she liked him much better than she had
expected.
When David came to bed, she sat by him and talked to him about his
angry unforgiving spirit. She could not but think he was in a
fearful temper, and she tried hard to make him sorry for his brother,
instead of thirsting to see the disappointment visited on him; but
David could not see what she meant.
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