Bertha's Visit to Her Uncle in England (Volume 1) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: windows are enlarged; new walks are made; and there is a new flower-garden and conservatory, of which my. aunt is very fond. Your favourite walk has been preserved quite unchanged. My uncle loves it so much, that he showed it to me himself, and we sat vinder your favourite tree, where you and he used to play and read together in those happy times when you were companions. I sleep in your room, which has the same dear old projecting window which you described to me,?a half hexagon, with stone divisions, and pretty casement-work between. 8th.?I begin to feel more at ease with all my new friends ; indeed, I do not know why I am afraid of them. Generally, before we leave the breakfast-table, one of my cousins reads aloud for about half an hour. This morning, before we separated, -my uncle said, ' My dear children, I hope you will consider my little Bertha as another sister;?we must make her feel at home. Let us go on just as usual with all our employments, and she will gradually cease to be a stranger.' ' I hope,' said my aunt,' that Bertha does not feel herself a stranger?she will soon become accustomed to our mode of life; but we must give her a little time?we must become acquainted by degrees.' ' But, Mamma,' said Caroline, ' will not mycousin feel a little neglected, if we continue our own pursuits, without any attention to hers ?' ' Certainly, were that the case?but I think, my love, that, as Bertha will have her own employments, she may not, perhaps, at first like to make one of our happy family school; but, though occupied ourselves, I am sure we shall never be inattentive to her feelings.' ' I dare say Bertha knows that to be always employed is the chief secret of happiness,' said my uncle ; ' and I am convinced that both you and she will perceive that we never ...