I don't _deserve_ to keep them for vexing you so.

Only I didn't, oh, indeed, I didn't mean to _mock_ you, dear grandmother.

It is that that I can't bear, that you should think so.

It was a plan I had made to teach me to be careful, only I know it was silly--I am always thinking of silly things, but oh, _believe_ me, I would not make a joke of your teaching me to be good .-- Your own dearest "MOLLY." "Poor little soul," said grandmother.

"I wish I had not been so hasty with her.