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There was no possibility of taking a walk that day We had been

wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the ;

but since dinner (Mrs Reed, when there was no coht with it clouds so so, that further out-door exercise was now out of

the question

I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly

afternoons: dreadful to ht,

with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings

of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of iana Reed

The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their

-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the

fireside, and with her darlings about her (for the ti) looked perfectly happy Me, she had

dispensed froretted to be under

the necessity of keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard

from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was

endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and

childlike disposition, a hter, franker, more natural, as it were--she really

es intended only for contented, happy,

little children"

"What does Bessie say I have done?" I asked

"Jane, I don't like cavillers or questioners; besides, there is