60 What about Lessons 2

 

for a whole month, we did not often
see the inside of a book. Yet, I
had learnt to read, and had been in
the habit of learning to spell and to
count every day of my life at home.
I don’t quite know how it .came
about that we were not all of us a
very untamed set after a month’s
idleness at the Park. Perhaps, it
was a good thing for us that grand-
mamma was what she was. The
very perfection of tender kindness
we all felt her, and yet there was a’
certain dignity about her, that made
it a simple impossibility to be
rough or rude before her. And on
the whole we were a great deal with