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"Oh, then we'll have holidays till we have got books,his hands on the sofa, and i horse

"It is very necessary to see what kind of books you ought to have,"

returned Rachel "How far have you gone in this?"

"I say, mamma," reiterated Conrade, "we can't do lessons without books"

"Attend to what your Aunt Rachel says, my dear; she wants to find out

what books you should have"

"Yes, let me examine you"

Conrade came most inconveniently close to her; she pushed her chair

back; he ca, "My dear!"

"I thought she wanted to exa, he puts it under a ravely, and whether it were malice or simplicity, Rachel

was perfectly unable to divine, but she thought anyway that Fanny had

no business to laugh, and explaining the species of exaer days she had worked much

at schools, and was really an able and spirited teacher, liking the

occupation; and laying hold of the first book in her way, she requested

Conrade to read He obeyed, but in such a detestable gabble that she

looked up appealingly to Fanny, who suggested, "My dear, you can read

better than that" He read four lines, not badly, but then broke off,

"Mamma, are not we to have ponies? Coo;

it is to be seen at the 'Jolly Mariner,' and he will take us to look at

it"