'
'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?'
'You know what papa said yesterday,' was the answer.
'Oh! but I thought your feelings were with poor Julian in the Tower,'
said Claude.
'My feelings prompt me to sacrifice my pleasure in reading about him
to please papa, after he spoke so kindly.'
'If that is always the effect of your principle, I shall think better
of it,' said Claude.
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