It is very ungrateful in me, I know, when father has done it mostly to please me.

Do you believe--he has hunted me up a maid; Doris is her name; and what I am ever to do with her, or she with me, I am sure I don't know.

Do you ?' Jerrie did not know either, but suggested that she might read to her while she was confined to her room.

'Yes, she might, perhaps, do that, if she can read,' Ann Eliza said.

'She certainly has pretentions enough about her to have written several treatises on scientific subjects.