“I shall be so much obliged to you, though I do not deserve it,” said Fanny.
“I am glad that you do not feel angry with your little brother, naughty as he has been. It is a blessed thing to forgive an injury, and we are following our Lord and Master’s precept in doing so.”
“I am sure that I should be doing what is very wrong, if I did not forgive him,” answered Fanny, “because I pray to be forgiven as I forgive others, and as he has hurt himself so much, I hope no one else will be angry with him.”
“I trust that the way he has hurt himself will be a lesson to him,” said Mrs Norton, as having wrapped up the doll in her shawl, she accompanied her pupil back to the schoolroom. She allowed Norman to remain sitting in the chair by himself, but before she left the house, she begged Susan to go and attend to him.
As soon as Fanny saw her granny and mamma returning from their drive, she ran down to meet them.
“Norman has cut his finger,” she said, “but Mrs Norton does not think it is very bad, and I want you not to ask me how he did it; pray do this, I shall be so much happier, if you will.”
They said “yes.”
“Thank you, dear granny; thank you, mamma,” exclaimed Fanny, kissing them both.
I think Fanny Vallery had pleasanter dreams than her brother Norman that night.