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"Hear me," said Mad. de Rosier, "or you are undone go into the closet without making any bustle call Favoretta, gently; she will not be frightened, when she hears only your voice." Grace did as she was ordered, and returned from the closet in a few instants, with Favoretta. Grace instantly began an exculpatory speech, but Mrs.
"Oh ho!" thought Grace, "if it comes to reading, Master Herbert will soon be asleep." But though it had come to reading, Herbert was, at this instant, broad awake. At supper, when the radishes were distributed, Favoretta was very impatient to taste them; the first which she tasted was hot, she said, and she did not quite like it.
Little Herbert's countenance glowed with pleasure at receiving such praise from his mother; but he soon checked his pride, for he discovered Favoretta, upon whom every eye had turned, as Mrs. Harcourt concluded her speech. Favoretta was sitting in the furthest corner of the room, and she turned her face to the wall when Herbert looked at her; but Herbert saw that she was in disgrace.
"I am sure I never saw such a toy-shop," said Favoretta; "I expected the finest things that ever were seen, because it was such a new great shop, and here are nothing but vulgar-looking things great carts and wheel-barrows, and things fit for orange-women's daughters, I think."
At this age, the habits that constitute character are not formed, and it is, therefore, absurd to speak of the character of a child six years old. Favoretta had been, from her birth, the plaything of her mother and of her mother's waiting-maid. She was always produced, when Mrs.
When Herbert had recalled his wandering thoughts, and had fixed his mind upon what he was about, Mad. de Rosier put her hand upon the book he started "Now let us see the beautiful box," said she. After it had passed through Favoretta and Herbert's impatient hands, Matilda, who had scarcely looked at it herself, took it to the window, to give it a sober examination.
Children will necessarily delight in the company of those who make them happy; Mad. de Rosier knew how to make her pupils contented, by exciting them to employments in which they felt that they were successful. "Mamma! mamma! dear mamma!" cried Favoretta, running into the hall, and stopping Mrs.
"And if you were not always angry," said Mad. de Rosier, "perhaps sometimes your brother would tell you why." "Yes, that I should," said Herbert; "I always have a good reason to give Favoretta, though I don't always choose to give it." "Then," said Mad. de Rosier, "you cannot always expect your sister to admire the justice of your decisions."
It was with some difficulty that he prevailed upon Favoretta to restore the queen-cake: the arguments that he used we shall not detail, but he concluded with promising, that, if Favoretta would return the cake, he would ask Mad. de Rosier, the next time they passed by the pastrycook's shop, to give them some queen-cakes "and I dare say she will give us some, for she is much more really good-natured than Grace."
Rebecca, I had my mistress's ear, and was all in all in the house, with her and the young ladies, and the old governess; and it was I that was to teach Master Herbert to read; and Miss Favoretta was almost constantly from morning to night, except when she was called for by company, with me, and a sweet little well-dressed creature always, you know, she was."
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