"But shall we not yield to the child's wishes so far as to warn the man beforehand that he is never, upon any pretext, to give her a blow?
I will not have him strike Rosie," she added with heightened color; "if he ventured such a thing I should take her immediately away." Her father regarded her with an amused smile.

"I have seldom seen you so excited, so nearly angry, as at that thought," he remarked.

"But Rosie is not at all likely to give him any pretext for so doing; nor is Evelyn; they are both remarkably even-tempered and painstaking with their studies.
"However, I shall warn Signor Foresti in regard to his treatment of all three of the little girls sent by us to the school; telling him that if they are idle or wanting in docility and respect, he is simply to report them for discipline at home.

Will that answer, Violet ?" "Nicely, thank you, grandpa," she said, with a sigh of relief.
Lulu looked but half satisfied when her mamma reported the result of her intercession with those higher in authority; but seeing there was nothing more to be gained, quietly submitted to the inevitable..