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Long did the hours seem while I waited the departure of the company,

and listened for the sound of Bessie's step on the stairs:

sometimes she would come up in the interval to seek her thi by way of supper--a

bun or a cheese-cake--then she would sit on the bed while I ate it,

and when I had finished, she would tuck the clothes round ht, Miss Jane" When thus

gentle, Bessie see in

the world; and I wished most intensely that she would always be so

pleasant and amiable, and never push me about, or scold, or task me

unreasonably, as she was too often wont to do Bessie Lee ood natural capacity, for she was smart

in all she did, and had a ree from the impression made on me by her nursery tales

She was pretty too, if my recollections of her face and person are

correct I re woood, clear complexion; but she

had a capricious and hasty temper, and indifferent ideas of

principle or justice: still, such as she was, I preferred her to

any one else at Gateshead Hall