I don't feel as if I had that authority.

If it be done at all, it must be by papa's consent, and if you wish me to ask him about it, I will, only I think it would vex Miss Winter; and I don't think dear mamma would have liked Greek and Cocksmoor to swallow up all the little common ladylike things." Ethel made two or three great gulps; "Margaret, must I give up everything, and forget all my Latin and Greek ?" "I should think that would be a great pity," said Margaret.

"If you were to give up the verse-making, and the trying to do as much as Norman, and fix some time in the day--half an hour, perhaps--for your Greek, I think it might do very well." "Thank you," said Ethel, much relieved; "I'm glad you don't want me to leave it all off.

I hope Norman won't be vexed," she added, looking a little melancholy.
But Norman had not by any means the sort of sentiment on the subject that she had.

"Of course, you know, Ethel," said he, "it must have come to this some time or other, and if you find those verses too hard, and that they take up too much of your time, you had better give them up." Ethel did not like anything to be said to be too hard for her, and was very near pleading she only wanted time, but some recollection came across her, and presently she said, "I suppose it is a wrong sort of ambition to want to learn more, in one's own way, when one is told it is not good for one.