a little ; I thought I should like it very 
much. But," she added, with a very sweet, docile look, 
"I can trust your judgment about it, Miss Frost. It shall 
be yes or no, just as you say." 

" Decidedly no, then. I believe that the most you could 
 to do, would be to learn enough of the principles 
and resources of music to enable you to understand and 
enjoy it more perfectly, when you hear it from others ; 
no worthless acquisition, to be sure, but you can accom- 
plish the same tiling, in an easier way. Since  is will- 
ing, you can make it a rule to be present at her lessons, 
and listen to the instructions she receives. You will thus 
learn a good deal of the science of music ; you will see the 
objects she is working to attain ; you will understand the 
nature and the amount of the difficulties she has to over- 
come, and the value of the successes she achieves ; and 
whenever her time of  comes, you will rejoice in it 
as if it were your own. Thus, she will get the help and 
 of an intelligent, adequate , born of 
knowledge ; and you will get the benefit of her labor, 
without the time and wordnetdesire