70 What about Lessons ?

 

we might have been. They had
saved us ever so much trouble, and
ever so many tears, by teaching us
that hardest lesson “do as you are
told,” before we were old enough
to understand its difficulty. And
Miss Grant was always so bright
and happy that she scarcely ever
let us suspect, even in the naugh-
tiest times, that we were “ making
the lines come.” Out of doors she
was the merriest among us, and
grandmamma would often say to

Lottie that she was ever so much _

older than Miss Grant, because
she would walk soberly about with
a book, while Miss Grant was hav-