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It is only you and Davie that have such high-flown notions about right and wrong, and duty, and all that." "Our ideas of `duty and all that' are just like other people's, Jem, I think," said David. "They are just like Miss Bethia's, at any rate, and mamma's." "And like Jem's own ideas, though not like Mr Philip's" said Violet.
Of course it is right that each individual in a community should do what may be done to help all the rest to be good and happy. But people cannot be made good and happy against their own will, and Miss Bethia's advances in that direction were too often made in a way which first of all excited the opposition of the person she intended to benefit.
So what could Mrs Inglis do but press her hand, murmuring thanks in the name of her children and her husband. Miss Bethia's spirits rose. "And you'll have to be a good boy, David, and adorn the doctrine of your Saviour, so as to fill your father's place." "Miss Bethia, I can never do that. I am not good at all." "Well, I don't suppose you are.
And while he strolled along, smoking his pipe, watching the twinkling lights of passing vehicles and enjoying the touch of frost, he was thinking, in a half-cynical, half-amused way, of his Aunt Bethia's taste for the sensational fiction and of her evidently sincere conviction that there were much stranger things in real life than could be found between the covers of any novel.
"Yes, she is always very good, and to-night she is pleasant," said Violet. "And I'm not at all sorry that she came, though mamma is away. Good-night, dear, and pleasant dreams." Upon the whole, Miss Bethia's visit was a success. Mr and Mrs Inglis came home next day to find her and little Mary in possession of the house.
But it was just at the time when the cook was sulking at Bethia's dismissal and she chose to be unpunctual and careless. There was no successor to Bethia as yet appointed to wait at the meals. So, though Mr.
But David was shy of responding to her expressions of interest on this subject. It was one thing to speak to his mother of his hopes, and quite another to listen to Miss Bethia's plans and suggestions, especially as she did not confine the discussion to themselves, but claimed the sympathy and congratulations of friends and neighbours, in view of his future work and usefulness.
"I expect that his nature has got to be changed before he amounts to much that is good. I hope, David, you will not let this frivolous young man lead you away from the right path." Mrs Inglis had gone out of the room, and David prepared himself for what he knew would come sooner or later, Miss Bethia's never-failing good advice.
The house was as orderly, and the meals were as regular; and though some things in the usual routine were left undone because of Debby's absence and Miss Bethia's presence in the house, still everything went smoothly, and all the more so that Miss Bethia, who had had a varied experience in the way of long visits, knew just when to sit still and seem to see nothing, and when to put forth a helping hand.
The house itself was well enough, and the place had been a pretty place once; but Miss Bethia's enemies the great Railway Company had been at work on it, and about it, and they had changed a pretty field of meadow-land, a garden and an orchard, into a desolate-looking place, indeed.
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