I do really hope that girl will be of great use to
those little things; her mistress says no girl ever kept them in such
good order before.'
'I was going to compliment you on the good behaviour of your children
at St. Austin's, Lizzie,' said Lady Merton; 'I thought I never saw a
more well conducted party.'
'Ah! some of our best children are gone to St. Austin's,' said
Elizabeth; 'I quite grudge them to Mr. Somerville; I hate the girls
to get out of my sight.'
'So do I,' said Anne, 'I am quite angry when our girls go out to
service, they _will_ get such horrid places--public houses, or at
best farm houses, where they have a whole train of babies to look
after, and never go to church.'
'And very few of the most respectable fathers and mothers care where
their children go to service,' said Elizabeth; 'I am sure I often
wish the children had no parents.'
'In order that they may learn a child's first duty?' said Lady
Merton.
'Well, but is it not vexatious, Aunt Anne,' said Elizabeth, 'when
there is a nice little girl learning very well in school, but
forgetting as soon as she is out of it, her mother will not put
herself one inch out of the way to keep her there regularly; when the
child goes to church continually, the mother never comes at all, or
never kneels down when she is there.
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