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'No'

'Then, of course, I can do nothing for you'

With race were the most dreadful of punishments; but on her they made no impression Sometimes, exasperated to the utmost pitch, I would shake her violently by the shoulder, or pull her long hair, or put her in the corner; for which she punished h my head like a knife She knew I hated this, and when she had shrieked her utmost, would look into ,--'NOW, then! THAT'S for you!' and then shriek again and again, till I was forced to stopMrs Bloomfield up to inquire as the irl,screa in a passion'

'I never heard such a dreadful noise! Youher Why is she not out with her brother?'

'I cannot get her to finish her lessons'

'But Mary Ann irl, and finish her lessons' This was blandly spoken to the child 'And I hope I shall NEVER hear such terrible cries again!'

And fixing her cold, stony eyes upon me with a look that could not be mistaken, she would shut the door, and walk away Sometimes I would try to take the little obstinate creature by surprise, and casually ask her the hile she was thinking of soin to say it, and then suddenly cheek herself, with a provoking look that seemed to say, 'Ah! I'm too sharp for you; you shan't trick it out of et the whole affair; and talked and played with her as usual, till night, when I put her to bed; then bending over her, while she lay all s, I said, as cheerfully and kindly as before--'Now, Mary Ann, just tell irl now, and, of course, you will say it'

'No, I won't'

'Then I can't kiss you'

'Well, I don't care'

In vain I expressed ered for some symptom of contrition; she really 'didn't care,' and I left her alone, and in darkness, wondering most of all at this last proof of insensate stubbornness In MY childhood I could not iine a more afflictive punishht: the very idea was terrible More than the idea I never felt, for, happily, I never committed a fault that was deemed worthy of such penalty; but once I reression of ht proper to inflict it upon her: what SHE felt, I cannot tell; butfor her sake I shall not soon forget