Regular hours were instituted, and the
difficulty of getting broken into them again was sufficient proof to
her that she had done wrong in neglecting them. Armine yawned
portentously, and declared that he could not learn except at his own
times; and Babie was absolutely naughty more than once, when her
mother suffered doubly in punishing her from the knowledge of whose
fault it was. However, they were good little things, and it was not
hard to re-establish discipline with them. After a little breaking
in, Babie gave it to her dolls as her deliberate opinion that
"Wegulawity settles one's mind. One knows when to do what."
Janet could not well complain of the regularity in itself, though she
did cavil at the actual arrangements, and they were altered all round
to please her, and she showed a certain contempt for her teacher in
the studies she resumed with her mother; but after the dictionary,
encyclopaedia and other authorities, including Mr. Ogilvie, proved
almost uniformly to be against her whenever there was a difference of
opinion, she had sense enough to perceive that she could still learn
something at home.
Moreover, after one or two of these references, Mr. Ogilvie offered
to look over her Latin and Greek exercises, and hear her construe on
his Saturday half-holidays, declaring that it would be quite a
refreshment.
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