Men think but little how much of this kind is endured that their eyes may be pleased, even though it be but for an hour.
"Oh! mamma, how good you are," said Bell, as the two girls came in, only just in time to make themselves ready for returning to dinner.
"Mamma is always good," said Lily.

"I wish, mamma, I could do the same for you oftener," and then she kissed her mother.

But the squire was exact about dinner, so they dressed themselves in haste, and went off again through the garden, their mother accompanying them to the little bridge.
"Your uncle did not seem vexed at my not coming ?" said Mrs Dale.
"We have not seen him, mamma," said Lily.

"We have been ever so far down the fields, and forgot altogether what o'clock it was." "I don't think Uncle Christopher was about the place, or we should have met him," said Bell.
"But I am vexed with you, mamma.

Are not you, Bell?
It is very bad of you to stay here all alone, and not come." "I suppose mamma likes being at home better than up at the Great House," said Bell, very gently; and as she spoke she was holding her mother's hand.
"Well; good-bye, dears.