dear papa likes me to have these , and can afford them. I never knew I was luxurious before, and yet I think I must be! One I do wordnetdesire, and that is, that I was of as much use as those girls. I ought to be. I am a motherless girl like them, and I ought to be everything to papa, just as Miss May is, even lying on the sofa there, and only two years older than I am. I don't think I am of any use at all; he is fond of me, of course, dear papa; and if I died, I don't know what would become of him; but that's only because I am his daughter--he has only George besides to for. But, really and truly, he would get on as well without me. I never do anything for him, but now and then playing to him in the evening, and that not always, I am afraid, when I wordnetdesire to be about anything else. He is always petting me, and giving me all I wordnetdesire, but I never do anything but my lessons, and going to the school, and the poor people, and that is all . I have so much that I never