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He did not quite know all that his little girl was thinking of; but he patted her fondly, and said, "Yes, there is a great deal to be thankful for, my dear; and I shall trust to you elder ones to give your Mamma no trouble while I am afloat." "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!"
Miss Fosbrook found a shop where the marvellous woman undertook to send home two grey frocks trimmed with pink, by the next evening; and found two such fashionable black silk jackets, that Susie felt quite ashamed of herself, though rather pleased; and Bessie only wished she could see her own back, it must look so like Ida's.
Miss Fosbrook hated the teasing, but she thought it served John so rightly, that she would not save him from it; and she only interfered to remind the others that their fingers would bring them in for fines unless they were washed before tea.
In a little, Scrope heard a dropping sound of firing, and a few moments afterwards the rattle of a volley. The battle was joined. Scrope saw the trench again yawn up before his eyes. The Major was right. This morning, again, Lieutenant Scrope had the harder part of it. When Sir Charles Fosbrook was told by Mr.
"Papa said he would not have taken him," said Sam; "but it seems so hard to have all his life changed for a thing that sounds worse than he meant it to be." "Sam," said Miss Fosbrook, "I once read a sermon, that said that our conduct in little things does decide the tenor of our lives.
"Never mind, we will make it up next week," said Susan. "Now, then, who will take Toby down?" said Miss Fosbrook, unbuttoning one glass door, and undoing the two bolts of the second, behind which the cup of money stood. "Susie ought, because she is the eldest." "Davie ought, because he is the youngest." David stood on a chair to take Toby off his shelf.
He says it makes him young again, and takes him out of the dingy streets, and from all his cares as to how the bills are to be paid." "Did you like coming here?" was Bessie's home question; and Miss Fosbrook winked away a little moisture, as she said,
The first to come back was Annie, with the question in a low whisper, "Miss Fosbrook, will God make Mamma better if we are very good?" Miss Fosbrook kissed her, saying, "My dear little girl, I cannot tell. All I can certainly tell you is, that He hears the prayers of good children, and if it be better for her and for you He will give her back to you."
"Yes, Bessie gets all the crying fines," said Hal; "and I hope she'll have lots, because she won't help the pig." Bessie started up from her place and rushed out of the room; while Miss Fosbrook indignantly exclaimed, "Really, boys, I can't think how you can be so ill-natured!" They looked up as though it were quite a new light to them; and Susan exclaimed,
My brother hardly knows where he is never saw those children so mannerly." Miss Fosbrook could not show how delighted she was. "I could hardly have ventured on taking those two girls to town unless you had broken them in a little.
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