102 Katie Summers.

 

riage, with boxes and hampers, Fanny longed
very, very much to be of the happy party. She
bade them good-bye, and watched them drive off,
and then ran up to her room, and, throwing her-
self on her knees by her bed, she sobbed bitterly,
and then she prayed to God to help her to
conquer her faults. She rose from her knees a
happier child, and, drying her eyes, she went
down to her mamma, who told her to get ready
to go for a walk with her.

The fortnight passed quickly to the little
people at the sea-side, and, as the weather was
so beautiful, it was arranged that they should
remain another week. Mrs. Summers wrote to
her sister begging her to come to them for that
week ; and Katie, too, begged so hard, that Mrs.
Marchwood agreed to go. Fanny had been
behaving very well. She had not much temp-
tation to do otherwise, living alone with her
kind and watchful mamma, and Mrs. March-
wood was anxious to see if her good behaviour