The same day
that Aunt Patience set out on her journey to Massachusetts, I returned
to Mrs. Leighton.
CHAPTER IX.
FRIENDLY ATTENTIONS.
It was well for me that my mind was actively employed; had it been
otherwise I should have continually brooded over my sorrows. As it was,
when engaged with my duties in the school-room, my thoughts would wander
to those two graves in the church-yard, and my tears would fall upon the
book from which I was listening to a recitation from my pupils.
Georgania having left home, I had only Birdie and Lewis as pupils. Much
pity did those affectionate children evince for me when they could not
but observe my grief. Birdie would often say,--
"Please, Miss Roscom, do not grieve so much; we all love you dearly, and
will be very kind to you."
And Lewis, who could never bear to see my tears, would say,--
"I will be a little brother to you, Miss Roscom, so please don't cry any
more."
To please my pupils, I endeavored to appear cheerful; but truly the
heart knoweth its own bitterness. One thought, however, afforded me some
consolation, and that was, that I was obeying my mother's dying
injunction, by striving to do my duty in the position in which I was
placed.
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