"Indeed, I think the favor will be on your side, as doubtless Lulu will improve all the faster for your companionship in her studies.

Rosie, being older than either of you, will, I fear, have to be quite alone in most of hers." "Yes, Brother Levis, and as I am to be such a lonely, forlorn creature you ought to be extremely good to me," remarked Rosie demurely.

"I hope you will remember that and try to have unlimited patience with your youngest sister." "Ah! my little sister would better not try the patience of her big brother too far," returned the captain with a twinkle of fun in his eye.
"I dare say; but he needn't think he can make me very much afraid of him, big as he is," laughed Rosie.
"Perhaps, though, it might turn out to the advantage of Professor Manton, should my youngest sister prove quite beyond the management of her biggest and oldest brother," remarked the captain, with assumed gravity.
"There!" exclaimed Rosie, "that's the worst threat you could possibly have made.

I think I'll try to be at least passably good and obedient in the schoolroom.

You needn't look for it in any other place, Captain Raymond," making him a deep courtesy, then dancing gayly away.
"Don't you envy her that it is only in the schoolroom she must be obedient to me, whom you have to obey all the time ?" asked the captain laughingly of Lulu, noticing that she was watching Rosie with a hurt, almost indignant look on her expressive features.
"No, indeed, papa! I'm only too glad that I belong to you everywhere and all the time," she answered, lifting to his face eyes full of filial respect and ardent affection.
"So am I," he returned, pressing tenderly the hand she had again slipped into his.