I never remember having felt the least bit bitterly toward mamma for punishing me.

I always felt I had deserved my punishment, and was much happier for having received it.

For after mamma had punished us and shown her displeasure, she showed no signs of further displeasure, but acted as if we had not displeased her in any way.
Ordinary punishments answered very well for Susy.

She was a thinker, and would reason out the purpose of them, apply the lesson, and achieve the reform required.

But it was much less easy to devise punishments that would reform Clara.