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her see--But she will make me open them--and sometimes, I am so
afraid, I won't open them for a long while--and then she ties me in that
high chair, you know the chair I sit in at table, and she makes me sit
there till I open my eyes, and then she looks in and finds out all my
naughtiness."
"But, why is my sweet little girl even naughty"--
"Oh I dont know, I didn't use to be naughty when I was always by
my dear Mama--but now she locks herself up in her own room, some-
times all the morning, and then I have no one to talk with, no one
to play with me, or love me--If I go in the nursery, old mammy
nurse, is so cross and won't let me jump, nor sing--then if I am
in the parlour, or hall, or drawing room, it is all so still and {lonely?}, and
I must not go in the kitchen, so I go in the garden, and there I
stain my frock--or eat too much fruit, or pull the flowers, or
lay down on the damp-grass, or do something or other mama has
forbidden me to do--for I have no body to keep me company.
Then sometimes I go and sit outside of Mama's door and lean against
it, and I hear poor Mama cry, and then I cry too--But now you
are come, I am never naughty, am I?"
"Never, you are one of the best children I ever knew."
"That is because I stay with you, and dear Mama. I
love to hear you read and talk, and you love me, and let me sit in your
lap, when you are sitting by Mama, but when Capt Mirvan is
here, he won't let me stay by Mama, but sends me away, and
I don't love Capt Mirvan."
"And who is Capt Mirvan?', enquired d'Aubigne in
evident surprise--
"Oh he don't come here now."
D'Aubigne checked himself, as he was about to put
some other question--and was again lost in thought.
"Our Betty, said Capt Mirvan, was a great deal handsomer than you,"
continued the little prattler, but I don't think so--He is a very large gentle-
man, a great deal bigger than you--and his skin is as
fair as a lady's--and he has blue eyes, and red cheeks, and white teeth

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