Why, isn't she doing well enough as she is?
I'm sure you've had a wonderful influence over her.'
'Nothing could induce me to lose sight of her entirely,' said
Mistress Mary, 'but we feel now that she is ready to take the next
step. She needs a skilled physician who is master both of body and
mind, as well as a teacher who is capable of following out his
principles. I will see to all that, if you will only give me the
privilege.'
Mrs. Grubb sank down in the rocking-chair in despair. 'Don't I need
some consideration as well as that little imbecile? Am I, with my
ambitions and aspirations, to be for ever hampered by these three
nightmares of children? Oh, if I could once get an astral body, I
would stay in it, you may be sure!'
'You do not absolutely need Lisa yourself,' argued Mary. 'It is the
twins to whom she has been indispensable. Provide for them in some
way, and she is freed from a responsibility for which she is not, and
never was, fit. It is a miracle that some tragedy has not come out
of this daily companionship of three such passionate, irresponsible
creatures.'
'Some tragedy will come out of it yet,' said Mrs. Grubb gloomily, 'if
I am not freed from the shackles that keep me in daily slavery. The
twins are as likely to go to the gallows as anywhere; and as for
Lisa, she would be a good deal better off dead than alive, as Mrs.
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