"Now you have come," said Mr. Sewell, "I will lend you another book."
"Thank you, sir; I love to read them when I'm at home—it's so still here. I should be dull if I didn't."
Mara's eyes looked eagerly attentive. Mr. Sewell noticed their hungry look when a book was spoken of.
"And you must read it, too, my little girl," he said.
"Thank you, sir," said Mara; "I always want to read everything Moses does."
"What book is it?" said Moses.
"It is called Plutarch's 'Lives,'" said the minister; "it has more particular accounts of the men you read about in history."
"Are there any lives of women?" said Mara.
"No, my dear," said Mr. Sewell; "in the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's."
"I should like to be a great general," said Moses, with a toss of his head.