Harry and Lucy Concluded - v. 1 Author:Maria Edgeworth Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " Mamma, do you recollect, two years ago, when my father was explaining to us the barometer and thermometer, and when he showed us several little experiments ?" ... more »said Lucy, and she sighed. " Yes, my dear, I remember that time very well," said her mother ; " but why do you sigh ?" " Because I was very happy then" said Lucy. " And are not you happy now, my dear ?" " Yes, mamma, but not so very happy as I was then, because now I do not go on with Harry as I used to do." " How so ? I hope that you have not had any quarrel with your brother ?" " Quarrel ! oh no, mamma, it would be impossible to quarrel with Harry, he is so good-natured ; and he is as fond of me as ever, I believe. But yet, I do not know how it is, we do not suit each other quite so well as we did. We are not so much together ; I do not know all he is doing, nor go ofl with all he is thinking of, as I used to do." " My dear Lucy, you and your brother have been learning different things for some time past ; and as you grow older, this must be ; your different employments must separate you during a great part of the day ; and so much the better, you will be the more glad to be together in your hours of amusement. Do not you find this ?" " Yes, I do, mamma," said Lucy, " but" —and after this but, she sighed again. " But now we are not amused always in the same way. Harry has grown so excessively fond of mechanics, and of all those scientific things, which he is always learning from my uncle and papa." " I thought, Lucy, that you were fond of those things too .?" said her mother. " So I am, mamma ; only I anr.-not nearly so fond of them as I was formerly : I do not exactly know why ; but, in the first place, I suppose, because I do not understand them now nearly so well as Harry does : he has go...« less