14/23 S.Why, my child, you have heard me say so before. Herr Dominie is the very strictest--but (_playfully_) he will not acknowledge it. There is one thing you must allow, Mrs.Spriggins,--that my pupils always take pleasure in my lessons; and that must be the case because their progress is evident and gives them delight, and every thing is developed in the most natural way. We won't discuss that; but how are your daughters able to play so many pieces to people, and moreover without notes, if they have not been obliged to practise all day long, and if you have not been very cruel with them, while my Lizzie cannot play a single thing without bungling? |