She said right off that she would come round and see you soon, and if she liked you, you should live with her.

But I must run back, for I suppose you know mother brought our governess with us, and it's time I was turning my toes out and my elbows in.

Ugh! how I do hate such works.

If I ever have a house, there shan't be a fashionable thing about it.

I'll have it full of cats, dogs, and poor children, with a swing and a '_teater_' in every room, and Billy Bender shall live with me, and drive the horses!" So saying, she ran off; and Mary, having gathered her cowslips, sat down to think of Mrs.Mason, and wonder if she should ever see her.
Since Alice's death she had been in the daily habit of learning a short lesson, which she recited to Sally, and this afternoon, when the dishes were all washed, she had as usual stolen away to her books.