82 EGLANTINE OR

 

 

was always extremely cold. She was constantly at
the fire, and invariably let something fall into it. Her
dresses were all burned, so that her wardrobe had to
be renewed nearly every month. When her masters
came to give her her lessons, she frequently complained
of headache, and thus excused herself from going to
them. ;

However, Eglantine was beginning to be no longer
a child; she was fast approaching her tenth year.
Her mother procured new masters forher. She tired
of the piano, not making any progress. She professed
to have a distaste for that instrument, and said she
would rather learn the harp. Doralice allowed her
to give up the piano, which she had been learning for
five years, and gave her a harp and engaged a master
to teach her. Eglantine was a year learning when her
master refused to give her any more lessons on account
of her want of application. She next tried the guitar,
but with equal success. At last the guitar was. aban-
doned as well as harp and piano.

Eglantine had still other masters. She was being
taught drawing, English, and Italian. She had a-
dancing-master, a singing-master, and a writing-
master; but the indolent Eglantine knew nothing, and
the expense she caused had no bounds.: -Every month