But after what fashion their fancies should be shaped, or whether they had wholesome food and tender training for that high faculty of imagination by virtue of which, after all, we so largely love and hate, choose right or wrong, bear and forbear, adapt ourselves to the ups and downs of this world, and spur our dull souls to the high hopes of a better--anxiety on these matters Mrs.Buller had none.
As to Mrs.Minchin, she would not have known what it meant if it had been put in print for her to read.
Matilda's irritability was certainly repressed in public by school discipline, and from Eleanor's companionship our interests were varied and enlarged.

But in spite of these advantages her health rapidly declined.

And this without its seeming to attract Miss Mulberry's notice.
Indeed, she meddled very little in the matter of our health.

She kept a stock of "family pills," which she distributed from time to time amongst us.

They cured her headaches, she said; and she seemed rather aggrieved that they did not cure Matilda's.
But poor Matilda's headaches brought more than their own pain to her.
They seemed to stupefy her, and make her quite incapable of work.