D.—What have been your studies?
P.—Composition, Rhetoric, Mathematics, Philosophy, Chemistry, Botany, French, Spanish, Music, and Drawing.
D.—Do you like your studies?
P.—Yes; some of them very much.
D.—How do you like the study of English composition?
P.—I can hardly say; we have to do every thing in French; address our teacher in French when we go to school in the morning; speak French in our exercises; in short, it is nothing but French all day.
D.—On the whole, you say you like your studies?
P.—Yes, when I am well; but latterly I have been so ill and low-spirited I could not enjoy any thing. I like study when I am able to perform it—like it very much. I used to succeed well; but latterly I am discouraged, and do not accomplish any thing at all.
D.—Well, now let us know all about your health, and see if we can find out what the matter is, and what it is proper to do. Here you have a fine, airy residence, an abundance of the best things to eat and drink, and to wear; good baths, good walks, and every thing about you to make you happy and comfortable.
Mother.—She has never been regular, doctor, in her whole life.