This principle, regarded by her as an illustration of the text, "Shall I give unto the Lord my God that which has cost me nothing ?" ran through all her precept and her practice.
When in some public distress we children went to her crying, and asking whether we could not help the little children who were starving, her prompt reply was, "What will you give up for them ?" And then she said that if we liked to give up the use of sugar, we might thus each save sixpence a week to give away.

I doubt if a healthier lesson can be given to children than that of personal self-denial for the good of others.
Daily, when our lessons were over, we had plenty of fun; long walks and rides, rides on a lovely pony, who found small children most amusing, and on which the coachman taught us to stick firmly, whatever his eccentricities of the moment; delightful all-day picnics in the lovely country round Charmouth, Auntie our merriest playfellow.

Never was a healthier home, physically and mentally, made for young things than in that quiet village.

And then the delight of the holidays! The pride of my mother at the good report of her darling's progress, and the renewal of acquaintance with every nook and corner in the dear old house and garden.
The dreamy tendency in the child, that on its worldly side is fancy, imagination, on its religious side is the germ of mysticism, and I believe it to be far more common than many people think.

But the remorseless materialism of the day--not the philosophic materialism of the few, but the religious materialism of the many--crushes out all the delicate buddings forth of the childish thought, and bandages the eyes that might otherwise see.