Hastings, "this would keep Dora entirely from her
studies, and that ought not to be."
"It need not," hastily interrupted Eugenia. "She can go to school
every day, for nothing will give me greater pleasure than to take
care of our dear Ella's child;" and the pocket-handkerchief went
up to her face to conceal the tears which might have been there,
but probably were not.
It was finally arranged, and in the course of a few days the
parlor of Locust Grove was echoing sometimes to the laughter, and
sometimes to the screaming, of little Ella Grey, who, from some
unaccountable freak of babyhood, conceived a violent fancy for
Eugenia, to whom she would go quite as readily as to Dora, whose
daily absence at school she at last did not mind. Regularly each
day, and sometimes twice a day, Mr. Hastings came down to Locust
Grove, and his manner was very kind toward Eugenia, when he found
her, as he often did, with his baby sleeping in her arms. He did
not know how many times, at his approach, it was snatched from the
cradle by Eugenia, who, in reality, was not remarkably fond of
baby-tending, and who, in the absence of the father, left the
child almost wholly to the care of her mother and sister.
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