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When we re-entered the house it was nearly tea-time Master Tom told me that, as papa was from home, he and I and Mary Ann were to have tea with mamma, for a treat; for, on such occasions, she always dined at luncheon-time with them, instead of at six o'clock Soon after tea, Mary Ann went to bed, but Toht After he was gone, Mrs Bloohtened me on the subject of her children's dispositions and acquirements, and on what they were to learn, and how they were to be ed, and cautioned me to mention their defects to no one but herself My mother had warned me before to mention them as little as possible to HER, for people did not like to be told of their children's faults, and so I concluded I was to keep silence on theether About half-past nine, Mrs Blooal supper of cold lad when that was over, and she took her bedrooh I wished to be pleased with her, her company was extre that she was cold, grave, and forbidding--the very opposite of the kind, warm-hearted matron my hopes had depicted her to be