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"And if I don't dress you," said Penelope "if I'm awful good will you give me sugar-plums?" "That is a treat in the very far distance," said Miss Tredgold. "But now, girls, go out. The more you enjoy this lovely air the better." They did all enjoy it; after their hard work for lessons were hard to them freedom was sweet. With each moment of lesson-time fully occupied, leisure was delicious.
For dirty hands. For being turned back twice with any lesson. For elbows on the table. For foolish crying. For unnecessary words in lesson-time. For running up stairs in wet shoes. For leaving things about. Each of these bits of misbehaviour caused the forfeit of a farthing out of the weekly allowance.
Why not? Are they not all God's voices? I was rather more left to myself of late. My governess gave me my lessons quite as assiduously as ever; but after lesson-time she seemed to have something else to take her attention. She did not walk often with me as the spring drew near; and my Sunday afternoons were absolutely unquestioned.
'Oh! but that's only scales, and everybody hates them! And I do love a German band. 'Especially in the middle of lesson-time, said Gillian.
I trust, therefore, that by more attention on the part of my pupils I may be able to continue the heavy task which I have undertaken. What I want to impress upon you children" here she turned abruptly to the little Delaneys "is that lessons are lessons, and play is play. During lesson-time I allow no wandering thoughts, I allow no attempts at shirking your duties.
Berger came twice every week, and sat beside the big chair, correcting Katy's exercises and practising her in the verbs and pronunciation. He was a lively little old Frenchman, and knew how to make lesson-time pleasant. "You take more pain than you used, Mademoiselle," he said one day; "if you go on so, you shall be my best scholar.
I do not know how they had met. He did not tell me. He he cares very much for her." "Cares for her! What next? He came here when? At Margaret's lesson-time, I suppose?" She saw from Janetta's face that her guess was correct. "I need hardly say that Margaret will not come here again," said Lady Caroline, rising and drawing her laces closely around her. "There is the amount due to you, Miss Colwyn.
And this necessity, combined with due attention to his parochial duties, made him partially ignorant how his son employed himself out of lesson-time.
The old man put up his hand and laid it gently on the slim brown leg, keeping it there till the horse stopped in the middle of the yard, when he held up both his arms and the boy slipped down into them. "Jim!" called at woman's voice from the house. "Jim! Hurry up; it's past lesson-time." "Bother!" said Jim regretfully; "it's always lesson-time just as I'm really occupied.
Fines were much less frequent: there were no foolish tears; only one lesson of John's turned back, two of Annie's, one of Susan's; some unbrushed hair of Susan's too an unlucky mention of the raven by Annie in lesson-time and some books left about by Sam.
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