This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...Rose, for, as I have told you before, Rose learned as well as most children. The difference was not in her but in Aileen, who learned better. The little girl was a favourite with her schoolfellows, as well as with mistresses and masters. She was happy and contented at school, and to her the holidays were periods of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...Rose, for, as I have told you before, Rose learned as well as most children. The difference was not in her but in Aileen, who learned better. The little girl was a favourite with her schoolfellows, as well as with mistresses and masters. She was happy and contented at school, and to her the holidays were periods of more than happiness and content--it was perfect bliss that she enjoyed then. She continued always to regard Mr. Burke--her own Mr. Burke, as in her grateful heart she still called him--as the greatest and best of men, while Rose she loved with scarcely less enthusiasm. She was Rose's delighted slave during the holidays, doing with alacrity everything she liked, and giving up her own will without being aware that she did so, because she had more pleasure in following Rose's wishes than her own. Rose loved Aileen also, but it never occurred to her to give way to her, or that it was not perfectly natural that what she liked should always be done, and that Aileen should like it also more than anything else. Rose was not aware that she was selfish. A great many children are unconsciously selfish, but they are not the less selfish because they are not conscious of it. Rose was very good-natured, and had a sunshiny sweetness about her that liked every one to be pleased; but Aileen always appeared happy, whatever happened, and that was enough for Rose, who often begged Uncle Archie to give Aileen somethiug she wanted--though she would not ask him for gifts for herself--and would keep treats for the holidays, that Aileen might enjoy them along with her. So it never occurred to her that Aileen might have particular wishes of her own, or that she ordered her about with good-natured imperiousness, and was first in everything. When Rose was about nine years o...
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