`` Have you had a good time ? Did you save the poor lady ? Are n't you glad to be home again with your girl to torment you ? '' `` Yes , to all those questions . Now tell me what you 've been at , little sinner ? Aunty Plen says you want to consult me about some new and remarkable project which you have dared to start in my absence . '' `` She did n't tell you , I hope ? '' `` Not a word more expect that you were rather doubtful how I 'd take it , and so wanted to ` fess ' yourself and get round me as you always try to do , though you do n't often succeed . Now , then , own up and take the consequences . '' So Rose told about her school in her pretty , earnest way , dwelling on Phebe 's hunger for knowledge , and the delight it was to help her , adding , with a wise nod , `` And it helps me too , uncle , for she is so quick and eager I have to do my best or she will get ahead of me in some things . To-day , now , she had the word ` cotton ' in a lesson and asked all about it , and I was ashamed to find I really knew so little that I could only say that it was a plant that grew down South in a kind of a pod , and was made into cloth . That 's what I was reading up when you came , and to-morrow I shall tell her all about it , and indigo too . So you see it teaches me also , and is as good as a general review of what I 've learned , in a pleasanter way than going over it alone . '' `` You artful little baggage ! that 's the way you expect to get round me , is it ? That 's not studying , I suppose ? '' `` No , sir , it 's teaching ; and please , I like it much better than having a good time by myself . Besides , you know , I adopted Phebe and promised to be a sister to her , so I am bound to keep my word , am I not ? '' answered Rose , looking both anxious and resolute as she waited for her sentence . Dr. Alec was evidently already won , for Rose had described the old slate and brown paper copy-book with pathetic effect , and the excellent man had not only decided to send Phebe to school long before the story was done , but reproached himself for forgetting his duty to one little girl in his love for another .
So when XXXXX tried to look meek and failed utterly , he laughed and pinched her cheek , and answered in that genial way which adds such warmth and grace to any favour , `` I have n't the slightest objection in the world .
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