"Well, run now and put your own corners tidy," suggested their
mother. "If Jock does not stay in the playground, he will come back
in a quarter of an hour."
"And Mr. Ogilvie will come then. I invited him," said Babie.
At which Carey laughed incredulously; but Janet, observing that she
must go and see that the children did not do more harm than good,
walked off, and Mary said—-
"I should not wonder if he did act on the invitation."
"I hope he will. It would have only been civil in me to have asked
him, considering that I have taken possession of you," said Caroline.
"I fully expect to see him on Miss Barbara's invitation. Do you
know, Carey, he says you have transformed his school."
"Translated it, like Bottom the Weaver."
"In the reverse direction. He says you have made the mothers see to
their boys' preparation, and wakened up the intellects."
"Have I? I thought I had only kept my own boys up to the mark. Yes,
and there's Johnny. Do you know, Mary, it is very funny, but that
boy Johnny has adopted me. He comes after me everywhere like a
shadow, and there's nothing he won't do for me, even learning his
lessons. You see the poor boy has a good deal of native sense,
Brownlow sense, and mind had been more stifled than wanting in him.
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