"Just suppose you were to try for once, really punishing them when they won't obey you, perhaps they would do it next time." "Why, sir, you see I don't like to take the stick to them; they've got no mother, you see, sir." Mary thought her a kind grandmother, and came out from behind her brother.
"I think it would be kinder to do it for once.

What do you think they will do as they grow older, if you don't keep them in order when they are little ?" This was foresight beyond Granny Hall, who began to expatiate on the troubles she had undergone in their service, and the excellence of Sam.
There was certainly a charm in her manners, for Ethel forgot her charge of ingratitude, the other sisters were perfectly taken with her, nor could they any of them help giving credence to her asseverations that Jenny and Polly should come to school next Sunday.
They soon formed another acquaintance; a sharp-faced woman stood in their path, with a little girl in her hand, and arrested them with a low curtsey, and not a very pleasant voice, addressing herself to Flora, who was quite as tall as Richard, and appeared the person of most consequence.
"If you please, miss, I wanted to speak to you.

I have got a little girl here, and I want to send her to school, only I have no shoes for her." "Why, surely, if she can run about here on the heath, she can go to school," said Flora.
"Oh! but there is all the other children to point at her.

The poor thing would be daunted, you see, miss; if I could but get some friend to give her a pair of shoes, I'd send her in a minute.

I want her to get some learning; as I am always saying, I'd never keep her away, if I had but got the clothes to send her in.