28 The Fairy Godmothers.
dows looks fo gay, and all things {peak of hope fo

loudly in a’ morning, who can be fullen? Cer-
tainly not little girls full of life and expectation,
But the thought of the fillagree box by degrees
took poffeffion of her mind and rankled there as
before. She too had a Governefs, and many leffons
to learn and much to do, and fhe did them; but
neither Englith hiftory nor French fairy tales could
quite drive away the fillagree box. Indeed it in-
troduced its horrid face before her into the midft
of a multiplication fum, and Mademoifelle thought
fhe was bewitched to have grown fo ftupid over
her arithmetic all at once. She {pent a half hour
over that one fum, and when it was done fhe was fo
much tired fhe gave up leffons for the day. Befides,
fhe had to prepare for her friends, She went into
her boudoir, opened her cabinets and unfolded her
treafures of various forts—oh I can’t tell you what
beautiful things! befides interefting colleGtions of
foreign and Englifh fhells, and ftuffed humming
birds, which you and I fhould be charmed to pof
fefs. And Julia was in general moft happy when
fhe was looking over her property, but rather
more becaufe fhe poffeffed valuable curiofities than
becaufe fhe cared about them, I fear. For my
part, I wonder very much that the humming birds
and fhells did not teach her to be more humble-
minded ; for no art or jewellery can imitate or
come up to their glorious beauty. Well, the
amufed herfelf tolerably in {pite of the vifions of
the fillagree box and the queen’s hair, which now