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_can_ understand; that is all I have to say. I cannot undertake to be Mr. Richmond's dictionary. Uncompromising means different things at different times. It isn't a word for you, Tilly," the mother added, with a smile at the child. "There is only one thing Tilly will ever be uncompromising about," her oldest sister remarked. "What is that?" the little one asked quick. "Girls, stop talking and go to bed," said their mother. "Letitia and Anne, put up work; I am tired. Maria, you and Tilly go at once and be out of the way." "I can't see how I am in the way," remarked Maria. "Letty has not done her bonnet yet, and she will not go till she has." "Letty, I am not going to wait for that bonnet." "No, ma'am; there is no need." "I am not going to leave you up, either. I know how that works. The bonnet can be finished to-morrow. And, Anne, roll up your ruffles. Come, girls!" "What a lovely mantilla that is going to be; isn't it, mamma?" said Maria. "Won't Anne look nice when she gets it on? I wish you'd let me have one just like it, mamma." "I do not care about your having one just like it," said Anne. "What would be the use of that?" "The same use, I suppose----" "Maria, go to bed!" said her mother "And Matilda. Look what o'clock it is." "I can't go, mamma, unless somebody will bring me some shoes. Mine are wet." "Maria, fetch Tilly a pair of shoes. And go, children." The children went; but Maria grumbled. "Why couldn't you come up-stairs in your stocking feet? _I_ should." "It isn't nice," said the little one. "Nice! you're so terribly nice you can't do anything other people do. There is no use in our coming to bed now; Anne and Letty will sit up till eleven o'clock, I shouldn't wonder; and we might just as well as not. Mamma can't get them to bed. Letty and Anne ought to have been at the meeting to-night. I wonder if they would have risen? Why did not you rise, Matilda?" "I had not thought about it." "Can't you do anything without thinking about it first?" "I do not understand it yet." "Understand! why, nothing is easier than to understand. Of course, we are all to be as good as we can be, that's all." "You don't think that is much," said the little one, as she began slowly to undress herself. The work of undressing and dressing was always slow with Tilly. Every article of clothing taken off was to be delicately folded and nicely laid away at night; and taken out and put on
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