id:

"I only wish that it would break down the very first time you and
mother get into it."

"Thank you, Jem, for your good wishes," said Mr. Burke.

"For shame, Jem!" cried Miss Judy.

"I don't mean that I wish you and mother to be hurt," answered the
youth; "but the gig is not fit for such a one as you to go in. I
declare I am ashamed of it every time you come in sight of our
playground in it; the boys have so much to say about it."

"Well, well, Jem!" said Miss Judy.

"Well, well, Jem!" repeated the youth; "it is always 'Well, well!' or
'Oh fie, Jem!' but you know, Judy, that you told me that your governess
herself said that father ought to have a new carriage."

"I don't deny that, Jem," said Judy; "Miss Killigrew knows that father
could afford a genteel carriage, and she thinks that he ought to get
one for the respectability of the family."

"Who cares what Miss Killigrew thinks?" asked Tom.

"I do," replied Judy; "Miss Killigrew is a very genteel, elegant
woman, and knows what's proper; and, as she says, has the good of the
family at heart."

"Nonsense!" replied James; "the good of the family! you mean her own
good, and her own respectability. She would like to see a fine carriage
at her door, to make her look genteel; how can you be bamboozled with
such stuff, Judy?"

Mr. Burke seemed to sit uneasily whilst his children were going on in
this way. He was thinking how all this would appear before Mr.
Fairchild--that is, he was listening for the moment with Mr.
Fairchild's ears.

When we keep low company we are apt to listen with their ears; and when
we get into good company we do the same: we think how this will sound,
and that will sound to them, and we are shocked for them, at things
which at another time we should not heed; this is one way in which we
are hurt by bad company, and improved by good.

Mr. Burke had never thought his children so ill-bred as when he heard
them, that morning, with Mr. Fairchild's ears; and as he was afraid of
making things worse by checking them, he invited him to walk out with
him, after he saw that he had done his breakfast, to look at a famous
field of corn near the house.

When this had been visited the gig was ready, and they set out, leaving
Henry at the farm; and it was very good for Henry to be left, for he
had an opportunity of seeing more that morning than he had ever yet
seen of the sad effects of young people being left to take their own
way.

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