"Aunt Zoe, I hope you have a little better opinion of me than Rosie seems to have ?" "Yes, Lulu, I've always liked you.

I think yours would be a splendid character if only you could learn to rule your own spirit, as the Bible says.

I've heard my father say that those who were naturally high-tempered and wilful made the noblest men and women if they once thoroughly learned the lesson of self-control." "I wish I could," said Lulu, dejectedly.

"I'm always sorry for my failure when my passion is over, and think I will never indulge it again; but soon somebody does or says something very provoking, and before I have time to think of my good resolutions I'm in a passion and saying angry words in return." "I am sorry for you," said Zoe; "I have temper enough of my own to be able to sympathize with you.

But you will try to make your peace with grandpa, won't you ?" "No; I was intending to, if Rosie hadn't interfered, but I sha'n't now; because if I did he would think it was from that mean motive that Rosie suggested." "Oh no; grandpa is too noble himself to suspect others of such meanness," asserted Zoe, defending him all the more warmly that she had sometimes talked a trifle hardly of him herself.
But she saw from Lulu's countenance that to undo Rosie's work was quite impossible, so presently gave up the attempt and left her to solitude and her book..