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remains unhemmed, she sews very industriously
for several minutes; then the needle is held
suspended while she asks, ‘‘Mamma, did you
not say that Cousin Mary had never been to
school ?””

“Yes, Lucy, I did; and I told you so that,
should you find. your cousin less advanced in her
education than yourself, you should not consider
it as a proof that she was less capable, but only
as a reason for being more indulgent to her,
and for endeavouring to help her forward in her
lessons.”

A few minutes more of silence succeeded, and
then Lucy says, ‘“‘ Mamma, I had one hundred
and twenty credit marks for good lessons, and
seventy-three for punctual attendance, the last
quarter.”

“The credit marks for punctual attendance,
Lucy,” answers her mother, “‘ should have been
given, I think, to your father and me, for making
you get up often against your will, and hurrying
you to school.”

But a carriage drives to the door. Charles,
who has been looking out of the window, claps