Are they better managed at home than their mothers?'
'More civilized and better kept at school, otherwise much the same,'
said Lady Merton. 'Yes, my experience is much the same as yours;
comparatively few of those I have watched from their childhood have
done thoroughly well, and their good conduct has been chiefly owing
to their parents. Some have improved and returned to do right,
perhaps partly in consequence of their early teaching.'
'Sad work, sad work, after all!' said Elizabeth, as she left the room
to finish hearing the little ones, and release Mrs. Woodbourne.
'And yet,' said Helen, as the door closed, 'no one is so happy at
school as Lizzie, or delights more in the children, or in devising
pleasure for them.'
'I never shall understand Lizzie,' said Anne, with a kind of sigh;
'who would have suspected her of such desponding feelings? and I
cannot believe it is so bad an affair. How can it be, taking those
dear little things fresh from their baptism, training them with holy
things almost always before them, their minds not dissipated by all
kinds of other learning, like ours.
Pages:
301
302
303
304
305
306
307
308
309
310
311
312
313
314
315
316
317
318
319
320
321
322
323
324
325