Cornelli
he garden picking green peas, which hung in clusters from t
many peas there are! Why do you steal about so quietly
ina is beginning to tell me that I even must not jump, for it might tangle my hai
t of that," Esther consoled her. "Just jump around as before! Your hair can always be put
Dorner says that is bad man
t obey! Yes, you have to obey," Esther repeated. "Don't you g
shook h
rdingly had suited herself to it. When she thought the ladies would not approve of an o
he things herself which drop beside the plate. I don't care. I don't want anything as long as I can go to the li
table as soon as it was born. You can certainly go to see it as long as it is in
" Cornelli now exclaim
pleasant things still left for you to enjoy. Just wait til
her lips to express the great
ish I didn't have to eat at table and could just eat
or she had forgotten to walk seda
the living room, in the jessamine arbor b
cousin could have such a very charming life, if the child were only a li
remarked Miss Grideelen; "and she may hav
ornelia was full of amiability and gayety. She always greeted and cheered everyone with her laughing brown eyes. If my cousin could only have t
voice. "But I am sure that something can still be accomplished by educating the child. Many qualities can be
answered Miss Dorner. "But I just hope that the day will come when I can write her father som
Cornelli, according to her custom, obediently did her lessons. Then she disappeared. In the late evening
nelli e
nearly perishing with the heat and you put on a fur dress, which you could wear witho
could see it was meant for the coldest winter weather, and for someone who disliked much outer clothing. The chi
resses left," she
t?" asked the cousin,
nning across the yard in a dark dress. At breakfast she wore a light frock and for lunch a red one. I believe that she wore a blue dress wh
I go to the stable," Cornelli said,
hen go to your room and take off this heavy dress. You surely have another dress. I must forbid you to go to the stable from now on! You can see for yourself what comes of it! If only you would not frown like this, Co
elli answe
n. "But we have not come here to teach you that; have we, Betty? Y
he friend. "She has lovely books that she can read; she has shown us some herself
" replied Cor
tion to what she says,
, she will probably tur
p an eye on Cornelli.
pen any
ornelli went up to her room
as they were on the stairs, where her words could not be overheard. "I have enoug
elli replied morosely. "T
l it when you have been
s M
nd even if they didn't, I should have to obey. The
hat!-so your frequent changing will have to stop," grumbled Mis
ldren." Miss Mina had never before spoken so roughly to Cornelli, for she had always been
at nobody had ever seen there before. Mina seemed to understand: "I did not do you any ha
aking hold of the dress she had just taken off she threw it out of the window. After a while Mina retur
doesn't blow you down,
said unp
tinately. "It did not blow down at a
t time you can get it yourself," sai
ose hand she was holding. During her school hours she had forgotten all the troubles of th
Cornelli quickly ran from bush to bush till she had gathered a fine bunch of dark and light, white and red r
unable to tell when the moment had come for it to be hitched to a carriage to be driven about by her. She might not be allowed even to do that! She hoped, however, that her father might be back by that time and that then everything would be differ
e said, "for I have to show you
chen," repl
thought you knew that you have to go upstairs before lunch to fix your hair. B
she had expected the return of her friend. Leading Cornelli to the sofa, Miss Dorner pointed
of dusty shoe soles. There was no trace of a whole foot,
" said Cornelli w
your little jokes similar to throwing your dresses out of the window. I know all about it. Just let me tell you this! It is the last time that you, a girl of ten years
I did not do it, no, no
you away," Miss Grideelen here remarked. "It would be so much better for you
e it. No, no!" Cornelli
owing red from ang
orth while to lose so many words. You should not have made things worse by denying it; if you had n
shall not say yes when it is not true,"
n you act that way. Just look at yourself in the mirror and see yourself how repulsive you look. If you think that there is anybody in
elli
be really growing there? The child had a sudden horrible fright at this thought. She was sure that everybody could see t
m. "When I tell them no, no, they ought to believe that I did not do it. I never, never di
down here on your stool and tell me quietly what has excited you so. You know that I belie
ation which had been brought against her, and how she had not been believed despite all her assurances. She was certain that both ladies would always believe for ever and ever that she had done it a
nce. You can say to yourself: 'God knows it, and I do not need to be afraid or frightened.' If you had really done wrong and had denied it, you would have to be afraid that the truth would be revealed. Then you could not look up calmly to the sky, for you would be frightened at the thought th
it all was. When her trouble began to weigh upon her, she could always say:
would then know it, too. God cou
oment always brings something we did not know about. Otherwise we would always be trying to undo what we have strained to do the day before; we should only make ourselves miserable over and over again. But if God ordains anything that we do not understand, we must believe firmly tha
during Martha's soothing speech, but
e! I hate to go back and sit at table. I would not min
drew together her brows as if sh
any children have no home at all. How grateful they would be to God for a home like yours. Go, now, Cornelli, be grateful for all God has given y
ause for grief. As soon, however, as she entered the garden and saw the windows of the room where they were surely alr
eemed to stick in her throat. If she would only die from it all! Cornelli thought that that would be best, for then everything would be over. So she sat down on the lawn
te," said Miss Dorner. "Nothing is to be kept warm for her, for she does not seem
r. Esther had everything ready and was
," she said, sitting down, too; "the poor child
she couldn't possibly eat the whole dessert. We can take our share
ay there. "The child must have something that will help her to swallow all the cross words she hears all
the ladies thought that Cornelli had been standing on it. The child would not adm
quicker to jump up on the sofa than to push the heavy thing away. When one wears tight lace boots in the early morning, one can't take them o
ted Mina pertly. "The sofa won't be spoiled on accou
having lied to them and before she nearly had a fit over the injustice. She made
tten the whole thing. That is the way with children. One moment they make a horrible
could not be obliging enough to the child then. Things are
efore you, too, will be singing another tune. When the new lady of
u saying?" she exclaimed. "Who should have thought of suc
ust be dumb not to see what is going on and why the ladies came here. After all, one wants to know what on
rules the house. I tell you one thing, though, Miss Mina, that I shall keep on singing the same tune I have be
that, Esther," said Mi
o see if the ladie
hind the currant bushes. She remembered at last how she had come back at lunch time from Martha's c
ly had a longing she had never known before. She felt as if she had to eat and taste everything about her, the bushes and the leaves, the flower
rough the open kitchen window; "they are just sit
rom among her things, tied it around her head. Then, runni
tled down, too. "A well brought up child should at least say
i, after which she finished
om after all this tim
arden," was
ible, but where wer
a," Cornell
uld be to your own advantage, for you do not have many pleasing things about you;
u to stay away so long without asking me, do you hear? You deserve to be scolded for your long absence to-day,
lli quickly
ou a he
N
he matter
thi
scoldingly. "Why do you put this shawl around your head? Are you trying to look like an untidy gypsy? Don't ever com
just shoo
it because she does n
desire a proper occ
t next day, she had taken off the s
id the cousin. "Do you think you are improving your a
d Cornell
ake you out at all. What will you put on nex
ied Cornell, accor
s capable of doing that. She will probably pull it down over her head to her nose when
of her head thick uneven strands of dark hair hung down over her forehead and deep into her eyes. The hair was not hanging
o look at you if you go around like that. This may teach you to g
rose and left the room. Miss
tter was sent to
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our house, your garden and the stable. Your place is perfectly magnificent; it abounds in fruit and vegetables and lov
hild has a dull and sullen nature, a roughness of manner and an unheard-of stubbornness. I can do nothing for her, at least not by anything I say. But I have decided to leave physical or other punishment to you. I shall do all I can by good example and admonishment as long as I am here. My friend
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