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Another troublesoible propensity to keep running into the nursery, to play with her little sisters and the nurse This was natural enough, but, as it was against her mother's express desire, I, of course, forbade her to do so, and did my utmost to keep her with me; but that only increased her relish for the nursery, and the more I strove to keep her out of it, the oftener she went, and the longer she stayed, to the great dissatisfaction of Mrs Bloomfield, who, I well kneould impute all the bla in the : at one time she would not be washed; at another she would not be dressed, unless she ht wear some particular frock, that I knew her mother would not like her to have; at another she would scream and run away if I attempted to touch her hair So that, frequently, when, afterher down, the breakfast was nearly half over; and black looks from 'mamma,' and testy observations from 'papa,' spoken at s irritated the latter sothe minor annoyances, was hter's dress; and the child's hair 'was never fit to be seen' Sometimes, as a powerful reproach to me, she would perform the office of tire woave her

When little Fanny came into the schoolroom, I hoped she would be mild and inoffensive, at least; but a few days, if not a few hours, sufficed to destroy the illusion: I found her a iven up to falsehood and deception, young as she was, and alar her two favourite weapons of offence and defence: that of spitting in the faces of those who incurred her displeasure, and bellowing like a bull when her unreasonable desires were not gratified As she, generally, was pretty quiet in her parents' presence, and they wereientle child, her falsehoods were readily believed, and her loud uproars led them to suspect harsh and injudicious treatth, her bad disposition became manifest even to their prejudiced eyes, I felt that the whole was attributed to !' Mrs Bloomfield would say to her spouse 'Don't you observe, my dear, how she is altered since she entered the schoolroom? She will soon be as bad as the other two; and, I am sorry to say, they have quite deteriorated of late'