Little Cousins. 47

 

Indeed, she talked always very
fast, and didn’t mind filling my
little head with her opinions of my
betters. which was certainly a mis-
take. It was.a shame, she said,
that my uncle, “ the Reverend,”
should send all his children here,
while he and his wife went taking
their travels and their pleasure all
about to those gay foreign places !
Grandmamma talked about it
in quite a different way. She told
me how ill my aunt had been, so
ill that my uncle had been obliged
to take her away from England for
the whole winter. And she said
that now they had left the place on