'The Bride of Lammermoor.'

'And last week?'

'Waverley. Oh! papa, I am afraid you must be very angry with me.'

'No, no, Lily, not yet,' said Mr. Mohun, 'I do not think you quite
knew what an intoxicating draught you had got hold of; I should have
cautioned you. Your negligence has not yet been a serious fault,
though remember, that it becomes so after warning.'

'Then,' said Lily, 'I will just finish Peveril at once, and get it
out of my head, and then read no more of the dear books,' and she
gave a deep sigh.

'Lily would take the temperance pledge, on condition that she might
finish her bottle at a draught,' said Mr. Mohun.

Lily laughed, and looked down, feeling quite unable to offer to give
up Peveril before she had finished it, but her father relieved her,
by saying in his kind voice, 'No, no, Lily, take my advice, read
those books, for most of them are very good reading, and very pretty
reading, and very useful reading, and you can hardly be called a
well-educated person if you do not know them; but read them only
after the duties of the day are done--make them your pleasure, but do
not make yourself their slave.'

'Lily,' said Claude the next morning, as he saw her prepare her
drawing-desk, 'why are you not reading Peveril?'