Here at least there was
certainty. I had never learned it.
"It appears to me," said my governess, "you have done very
little with the first ten years of your life. It gives you a
great deal to do for the next ten."
"Health has prevented her applying to her studies," said my
aunt.
"The want of health. Yes, I suppose so. I hope Daisy will be
very well now, for we must make up for lost time."
"I do not suppose so much time need have been lost," said my
aunt; "but parents are easily alarmed, you know; they think of
nothing but one thing."
So now there was nobody about me who would be easily alarmed.
I took the full force of that.
"Of course," said Miss Pinshon, "I shall have a careful regard
to her health. Nothing can be done without that. I shall take
her out regularly to walk with me, and see that she does not
expose herself in any way. Study is no hindrance to health;
learning has no malevolent effect upon the body. I think
people often get sick for want of something to think of."
How sure I felt, as I went up to bed that night, that no such
easy cause of sickness would be mine for long years to come!
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