d there with Betty a long time ago?"
said Emily.

"Ah! I can remember, still longer ago, when you were very little, and
Henry almost a baby," said Lucy, "papa carrying us over the field there
to nurse's, and getting flowers for us."

"I should like," she added, "to live in this place, and all of us
together, just as we are now, a hundred years."

"I feel we shall never come back if we go away," said Emily.

"We shall never come back and be what we have been," replied Lucy;
"that time is gone, I know. This is our last summer in this happy
place. Oh, if I had known it when we were reading Henry's story at the
hut, how very sad I should have been!"

"I cannot help crying," said Emily; "and I must not cry before our poor
grandmamma."

"These things which are happening," said Lucy, "make me think of what
mamma has often said, that it seldom happens that many years pass
without troubles and changes. I never could understand them before, but
I do now."

"Because," added Emily, "we have lived such a very, very long time just
in the same way."

The two little girls sat talking until they both became more calm; but
they had left off talking of their own feelings some time before they
left the hill, and began to speak of their grandmother; and they tried
to put away their own little griefs, as far as they could, that they
might comfort her. With these good thoughts in their minds, they came
down the hill and returned to the house.

[Illustration: "_It was Emily's step._"--Page 411.]

Grandmamma and the Children

[Illustration: Grandmamma was very much pleased with Lucy's stories]

"I don't care so much now," said Henry, meeting them at the door; "John
says he will go with us, if it is to the world's end, or as far as the
moon; and Betty says she will go too; and we can take the horse and
Mag--so we shall do. But grandmamma is up and has had her breakfast,
and we have got the Bath-chair ready, and she says that she will let us
draw her round the garden; and I am to pull, and John says he will come
and push, if the lady's-maid is not there too. He says that the worst
thing about going with us, is that lady's-maid; and he hopes, for that
reason, that the house will be very large."

Lucy and Emily ran to their grandmother; she was in the drawing-room;
she kissed and blessed them, and looked at them with tears in her eyes.

"Grandmamma," said Lucy, "we have thought about it, and we will go with
you to The Grov