The Water lily Pond

'I assure you, Mr. Omer, she has said so to me,' I returned eagerly, 'when we were both children.' ¡¡¡¡Mr. Omer nodded his head and rubbed his chin. 'Just so. Then out of a very little, she could dress herself, you see, better than most others could out of a deal, and that made things unpleasant. Moreover, she was rather what might be called wayward - I'll go so far as to say what I should call wayward myself,' said Mr. Omer; '- didn't know her own mind quite - a little spoiled - and couldn't, at first, exactly bind herself down.
more than that was ever said against her, Minnie?' ¡¡¡¡'No, father,' said Mrs. Joram. 'That's the worst, I believe.' ¡¡¡¡'So when she got a situation,' said Mr. Omer, 'to keep a fractious old lady company, they didn't very well agree, and she didn't stop. At last she came here, apprenticed for three years. Nearly two of 'em are over, and she has been as good a girl as ever was. Worth any six! Minnie, is she worth any six, now?'