"Why have we tongues, then?" asked Jessy pertly; while Rose only looked at her mother with an expression that seemed to say she should take that maxim in and think it over at her leisure. After two minutes' grave deliberation, she asked, "And why especially girls, mother?"
"Firstly, because I say so; and secondly, because discretion and reserve are a girl's best wisdom."
"My dear madam," observed Moore, "what you say is excellent--it reminds me, indeed, of my dear sister's observations; but really it is not applicable to these little ones. Let Rose and Jessy talk to me freely, or my chief pleasure in coming here is gone. I like their prattle; it does me good."
"Does it not?" asked Jessy. "More good than if the rough lads came round you.--You call them rough, mother, yourself."

"Why have we tongues, then?" asked Jessy pertly; while Rose only looked at her mother with grave deliberation, before asking, "And why especially girls, mother?"
"Firstly, because I say so; and secondly, because reserve is a girl's best wisdom."
"My dear madam," observed Moore, "what you say is excellent; but really it does not apply to these little ones. Let Rose and Jessy talk. I like their prattle; it does me good."
"Does it not?" asked Jessy. "More good than the rough lads. 