THE DARK LADY--TROUBLE IMPENDING--BEAUTIFUL, GOLDEN MAMMA So two years passed away.

Nurse Bundle was still with me.

With her I "did lessons" after a fashion.

I learned to read, I had many of the Psalms and a good deal of poetry--sacred and secular--by heart.

In an old-fashioned, but slow and thorough manner, I acquired the first outlines of geography, arithmetic, etc., and what Mrs.Bundle taught me I repeated to Rubens.