FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   51   52   53   54   55   56   57   58   59   60   61   62   63   64   65   66  
67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   78   79   80   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   >>   >|  
ing my face," answered the ungrateful little boy. "Oh, how can you say that, Norman?" exclaimed Fanny, ready to burst into tears at the unfeeling observation. "I would have told mamma that I slapped you, but then I knew that that would have shown what you had done; but I did tell Mrs Norton, and she said I was wrong, and I knew I was, and I want you to forgive me for that." "I do not know what you mean by `forgive,'" said Norman. "That you do not feel angry or vexed, or wish to slap my face, or do me any harm, and that you love me as much as you did before, and will try to forget all about it," answered Fanny. "That is what I think is the meaning of forgiving, and that is what I know I ought to do about the way you treated Miss Lucy. I wish there would not be the ugly mark on her neck, which I am afraid she always will have, even when Mrs Norton gets her head put on, as she has promised to do; but I must try and make her a high frock with a frill, which will come under her chin, and hide it, and then I shall not see the mark, and so I hope I shall soon forget what you did to her." Norman opened his large eyes, and fixed them on his sister. "I think I know better than I did before what to forgive means," he observed; "I wish, Fanny, I was more like you." Just then Susan, who had been looking for the children to get them ready for tea, came in, and led off Norman. Unfortunately she had discovered how he had treated Miss Lucy, and she thought fit to give him another scolding. This made him angry, and he entirely forgot all that Fanny in her gentle way had told him about forgiveness. Once more he hardened his heart and thought that now he was equal with Fanny, as he had lost his football, and her doll had lost its head. Captain Vallery returned home later than usual. Norman, who heard his ring at the door, ran down to meet him, and was much disappointed to find that he had not brought a new football. "I thought, papa, that you would have remembered that my football is spoilt," he exclaimed, "and would have brought another." "But who spoilt it, let me ask?" said Captain Vallery. "As you spoilt the football, you should be the person to mend it, and you should not expect me to bring you a new one." "But I cannot mend it, papa," said Norman. "People often find that they cannot remedy the harm they have done," observed his papa. Norman, who was afraid that his papa might hear of the way he had
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   51   52   53   54   55   56   57   58   59   60   61   62   63   64   65   66  
67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   78   79   80   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   >>   >|  



Top keywords:
Norman
 

football

 

spoilt

 

forgive

 
thought
 
observed
 

forget


treated
 

afraid

 

Captain

 

Vallery

 

exclaimed

 
answered
 

Norton


brought
 
People
 

gentle

 

forgot

 
scolding
 

Unfortunately

 

remedy


discovered

 

forgiveness

 
expect
 

remembered

 
disappointed
 

hardened

 

returned


person

 

meaning

 

forgiving

 

ungrateful

 
slapped
 

observation

 

unfeeling


opened

 
sister
 
promised
 

children