"Break it, of course," replied Lulu; "but this is quite another thing,
Mamma Vi."
"I'm not so clear about that," Violet answered seriously. "In the case we
have supposed, the promise would be to break the sixth commandment; in
yours it is to break the fifth."
"I'm not disobeying papa," asserted Lulu, hotly.
"Are you not?" asked Violet; "did he not bid you obey my grandfather
while he is not here to direct you himself?"
"Yes, ma'am," acknowledged Lulu, reluctantly; "but I'm sure he never
thought your grandpa would be so unreasonable as to say I must take
lessons of a man like Signor Foresti who had struck me: and that when I
did not deserve it at all."
"Lulu," said Violet, a little severely, "your father made no reservation.
But now good-night," she added in a more affectionate tone.
"I trust you will wake to-morrow morning in a better frame of mind."
"But I won't," muttered Lulu, as she left the room and retired to her
own; "I'll not be driven, coaxed, or hired."
CHAPTER XIX.
"For what I will, I will, and there's an end.
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