Few people would have remembered that she had ever been a little girl, and only the Little Colonel would have dared to intimate that she had been a naughty one, for she was one of those dignified persons who look as if they had always been proper and grown up.
"That is a long time ago to look back to, dear," she began.

"I was very strictly brought up, and the training of my conscience began so early that I was always a good child in the main, I think.

I was more timid than my brothers and sisters, which may account for some of my goodness, and for the most daring deed I ever did, I was punished so severely that it had a restraining effect on me ever after." "What was that ?" asked Lloyd, with such an air of interest, that Mrs.
Brewster, looking around on the listening faces, was beguiled into telling it.
"It was when we lived in a little New England village, and I was about eight years old.

Although I was a very quiet child, I dearly loved company, and always felt a delicious thrill of excitement when I heard that the Dorcas Sewing Society was to be entertained at our house, or that some one was coming to tea.

Mother thought that growing children should eat only the simplest, most wholesome dishes, so usually we had very frugal fare.