The things we do!

And
the smile which her pretty countenance wears shows off to great advantage
the two dimples on her pink cheeks. Her teeth are even and white, her
hair of a beautiful colour, and no snow can be whiter than her fair round
neck and polished shoulders. She talks very kindly and good-naturedly
with Julia and Maria (Mrs. Hobson's precious ones) until she is
bewildered by the statements which those young ladies make regarding
astronomy, botany, and chemistry, all of which they are studying. "My
dears, I don't know a single word about any of these abstruse subjects: I
wish I did," she says. And Ethel Newcome laughs. She too is ignorant upon
all these subjects. "I am glad there is some one else," says Rosey, with
naivete, "who is as ignorant as I am." And the younger children, with a
solemn air, say they will ask mamma leave to teach her. So everybody,
somehow, great or small, seems to protect her; and the humble, simple,
gentle little thing wins a certain degree of goodwill from the world,
which is touched by her humility and her pretty sweet looks.


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