Two Rose Trees; The Adventures of Twin Sisters a Story

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1880 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. CLARA COGAN--THE EXAMINATION. F course the rose trees went to school, but it was by no means easy to find a safe place for them in the long room which the twins shared with three other children and Miss Walker. Very anxiously they often thought of their plants when they should have been thinking of their lessons; and they were in daily dread that they would find one or other of the pots upset when they went up to tidy themselves for dinner, for they knew the servants had a great many rooms to do, and might not care to have the additional trouble of moving two flower pots daily to dust the table on which they stood; but in some way, by a few of the courteous words their mother had taught them always to use in speaking to servants, the twinsisters had found a soft corner in the heart of Susan, the head housemaid; and she respected their property in a painstaking manner; this I am afraid would not have been the case if Miss Clara Cogan, or one or two other arrogant and uncivil young ladies had been concerned, for by them poor Susan's temper was sorely tried. Lily's rose was nearly past blooming now, but had given her many beautiful buds and flowers; and she now watched Daisy's with renewed interest, and one day when they were both examining it, and for a wonder were alone in the room, Lily said--Don't you wish mama could be back to have the first blossom, Daisy? Ah! don't I? but oh! Lily, I shall be so glad when mama's next letter comes! How terrible it would be if she never found that! Found what? said a voice behind them, and turning two startled faces, the children saw Clara Cogan standing behind them. She was a good deal older than them, and little girls at school stand in some awe of big girls, but still Mrs Morton's little girls felt the...