Or housekeeper.—To-day, how wreck’d it look’d,

Your room! Our father just now came from there;

So vex’d, you know.”

I flush’d, and thought, at least,

That she to speak of it had not been kind.

And could have told her so, but check’d the words,

And went my way; and sought my father first,

And told him what the cause had been, and then

I sought my room, and pray’d that I might know

If it were well to tell my father too