We breakfast
at nine."
"It must take a great deal of coffee to wash down all that,"
said the doctor lazily trimming his sweetbriar. "Don't you
find that you are very hungry when you come to breakfast?"
"No, not generally," I said.
"How is that? Where there is so much sharpening of the wits,
people ought to be sharp otherwise."
"My wits do not get sharpened," I said, half laughing. "I
think they get dull; and I am often dull altogether by
breakfast time."
"What time in the day do you walk?"
"In the afternoon — when we have done with the schoolroom. But
lately Miss Pinshon does not walk much."
"So you take the best of the day for philosophy?"
"No, sir, for mathematics."
"Oh! — Well, Daisy, _after_ philosophy and mathematics have both
had their turn; what then? when breakfast is over."
"Oh, they have two or three more turns in the course; of the
day," I said. "Astronomy comes after breakfast; then Smith's
_Wealth of Nations_; then Chemistry. Then I have a long History
lesson to recite; then French.
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