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"No, indeed! If you fall in, I will pull you out Young entlehty seven years' old cha to keep her countenance

"I heard Mrs Churchill say so to ood sister Do pray let o!"

"If you say your tasks well, and will promise to be obedient to Harriet and to keep away froene was ready for any nu there was no escape for her, went off with Aurelia to put on their little three-cornered ene repeated his tasks, na fro-Book, and (Betty's special pride) his portion of the Orbis Sensualium Pictus of Johannes Amos Comenius, the wonderful vocabulary, with still more wonderful "cuts," that was then the s of Birds, Rex Avium, looketh at the Sun, intuetur Sole, since in the "cut" the sun ithin a hairsbreath of his beak, while his claere al a crow (Corvus) perched on a dead horse, to exemplify how Aves Raptores fed on carrion

Thanks to Aurelia's private assistance, Eugene knew his lessons well enough for his excitement not tohi with his copy, su These last were very tough affairs, the recitation being fro from the Spectator There were no children's books, properly so called, except the ballads, chap-books brought round by pedlers, often far froeneral literature was, to say the least of it, bracing

The Delavie faht hoh Telemaque, Racine, and Le Grand Cyrus were the whole library in that language; and there was not another within thirty miles On two days in the week the sisters became Mesdemoiselles Elisabeth, Henriette, and Aurelie, and conversed in French over their spinning, seams, lace, or e Racine on alternate days with Milton and Shakespeare

Betty could likewise talk German with the old Austrian maid, Nannerl, who had followed the family from Vienna; but the accomplishment was not esteemed, and the dialect was barbarous From the time of her h kind, ruler to her sisters; and the long as a greater holiday to Aurelia than to Eugene, releasing her fro his hoop, and haunting the steps of Palood deal besides, and ene carried his head as erect as any Grenadier in the service, and was a thorough little gentleman in miniature; a perfect little beau, as his sisters loved to call the darling of their hearts and hopes