They don't get help in sums or exercises; they only have grammar to
learn and construing to prepare, and all my concern is that it should
be got up thoroughly. If their mothers help them, so much the
better."
"The mothers don't seem to think so. However, she branched off into
incredulity that Mrs. Joe Brownlow could ever really teach her
children anything, for she was always tramping all over the country
with them at all hours of the day and night. She has met her
herself, with all those boys after her, three miles from home, in a
great straw hat, when her husband hadn't been dead a year."
"I'm sure she is always in regulation veils, and all the rest of it,
at Church, if that's what you ladies want."
"But the crown of the misdoings seemed to be that she had been met at
some old castle, sacred to picnics, alone with her children—-no party
nor anything. I could not make out whether the offence consisted in
making the ruin too cheap, or in caring for it for its own sake, and
not as a lion for guests."
"The latter probably. She has the reputation of being very
affected!!!"
"Poor dear! I heard that she was a great trial to dear Mrs.
Brownlow," said Mary, in an imitative voice. "Why, do you know, she
sometimes is up and out with her children before six o'clock in the
morning; and then Colonel Brownlow went in one day at twelve o'clock,
and found the whole family fast asleep on different sofas.
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