'
'Oh, Aunt,' said Helen, 'have not you forgotten that day? How
dreadfully I must have tormented everybody! I am sure Mamma's
patience must have been wonderful.'
'And I am very glad that Lizzie saves her from so much of the labour
of teaching now,' said Lady Merton.
'I see what you mean,' said Helen; 'I ought to help too.'
'Indeed, my dear, I had no intention of saying so,' said Lady Merton;
'yourself and your mamma can be the only judges in such a matter.'
'I believe Mamma does think that Lizzie has almost too much to do,'
said Helen; 'but there has been less since Horace has been at
school.'
'But Edward is fast growing up to take his place,' said her aunt.
'Edward will never take Horace's place,' said Helen; 'he will be five
times the trouble. Horace could learn whatever he pleased in an
instant, and the only drawback with him was inattention; but Edward
is so slow and so dawdling, that his lessons are the plague of the
school-room. His reading is tiresome enough, and what Lizzie will do
with his Latin I cannot think; but that can be only her concern.
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