"I believe I could, sir."
"Well, try it."
She went through without missing a word. Mr. Sewell then, for curiosity, heard her repeat all the other forms of the lesson. She had them perfectly.
"Very well, my little girl," he said, "have you been studying, too?"
"I heard Moses say them so often," said Mara, in an apologetic manner, "I couldn't help learning them."
"Would you like to recite with Moses every day?"
"Oh, yes, sir, so much."
"Well, you shall. It is better for him to have company."
Mara's face brightened, and Miss Emily looked with a puzzled air at her brother.
"So," she said, when the children had gone home, "I thought you wanted me to take Mara under my care. I was going to begin and teach her some marking stitches, and you put her up to studying Latin. I don't understand you."