"There, Gracie, you needn't be the least bit afraid you're to be punished
any more," remarked Lulu. "They'd never have sent us such a supper as this
if they wanted to punish us."
"Do you want to run away from them now?" asked Gracie. "Do you think
Grandpa Dinsmore is so very, very cross to us?"
"He's too hard on Max," returned Lulu, "though not so hard as he used to
be on Grandma Elsie when she was his own little girl; and perhaps papa
would be just as hard as he is with Max."
"But 'tisn't 'cause they like to make us sorry, except for being naughty,
so that we'll grow up good, you know," said Grace. "I'm sure our dear papa
loves us, every one, and wouldn't ever make us sorry except just to make
us good. And you know we can't be happy here, or go to heaven when we die,
if we're not good."
"Yes, I know," said Lulu; "I'm not a bit happy when I'm angry and
stubborn, but for all that I can't help it."
CHAPTER XV.
"Happy in this, she is not yet so old
But she may learn."
--Shakespeare.
Violet, meeting her grandfather on the way to the supper-room, gave him an
anxious, troubled inquiring look, which he answered by a brief statement,
given in an undertone, of what had just passed between himself and Max and
Lulu.
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