could have in the world.

MISS JENNY. Oh fie, Miss Sukey! What you have now said is
wicked. Don't you consider what you say every day in your
prayers'? And this way of thinking will make you lead a very
uneasy life. If you would hearken to me, I could put you into a
method of being very happy, and making all those misses you call
your enemies, become your friends.

MISS SUKEY. You could tell me a method, miss? Do you think I
don't know as well as you what is fit to be done? I believe I am
as capable of finding the way to be happy, as you are of teaching
me.



Here Miss Sukey burst into tears, that anybody should presume to
tell her the way to be happy.



MISS JENNY. Upon my word, my dear, I don't mean to vex you; but
only, instead of tormenting yourself all night in laying plots to
revenge yourself, I would have you employ this one night in
thinking of what I have said. Nothing will show your sense so
much, as to own that you have been in the wrong. Nor will
anything prove a right spirit so much. as to confess your fault.
All the misses will be your friends, and perhaps follow your
example. Then you will have the pleasure of having caused the
quiet of the whole school; your governess will love you; and you