"
"Now, mother, you know better! You could make anything of her, you
know you could! And what a model she would make! Think what a poor
little desolate thing she is. You always have a fellow feeling for
orphans, and we do owe those people a great deal of gratitude."
"Allen, you special pleader, it really will not do! If I had not
undertaken Essie and Ellie, I might think about it, but I promised
your aunt not to have any other pupils."
Allen bothered Essie and Ellie, but was forced to acquiesce, which
was fortunate, for when on the last day of the holidays it was found
that he had walked to River Hollow to take leave of the Goulds, his
aunt administered to his mother a serious warning on the dangers of
allowing him to become intimate there.
Caroline tingled all over during the discourse, and at last jumped
up, exclaiming—-
"My dear Ellen, half the harm in the world is done by making a fuss.
Things don't die half so hard when they die a natural death."
Ellen knew Carey thought she had said something very clever, but was
all the more unconvinced.
CHAPTER XII. KING MIDAS.
When I did him at this advantage take,
An ass's nowl I fixed upon his head.
Midsummer Night's Dream.
In the early spring an unlooked-for obstacle arose to all wanderings
in the Belforest woods.
Pages:
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
220