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“It’s raining, so we need not go out. Oh, what a delightful chat we shall have! Just sit down beside me, Georgie, and tell me how you feel now that you are at home.”
“I should feel very happy indeed, but that I think mother is looking very ill.”
“Do you?” exclaimed Lily, with a look of alarm. “Well, I hoped that she was better, for she never complains. The doctor saw her about a month ago; he gave her something to strengthen her, and said that she must be taken care of, and then there would be nothing to fear.”
“And is she taken care of?” said George.
“Well, I don’t know—I don’t see what we can do,” replied Lily, looking perplexed; “I would gladly sit up all night, if it could do her any good.”
“She does not want any one to sit up with her all night,” said George; “but I cannot help thinking that we could do more for her, Lily, than the cleverest doctor could. The lessons are a great fatigue to her, I fear.”
“Well, I’m sure that I should be delighted to leave them off, every one of them!” exclaimed his sister.
“That would not do,” answered George; “they must be learned; and I am afraid that I could not teach you as well as Eddy. But it does seem to me, Lily,” he continued, speaking more slowly and looking on the ground, “that you might save mother just half the trouble that you give her at your lessons.”