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`` Long before this , '' said Constance . `` Do you remember the good old saying , ` Do what you ought , that you may do what you like ' ? Habit is second nature . Were I told that I might lie in bed every morning until nine or ten o'clock , as a great favour , I should consider it a great punishment . '' `` But I have not been trained to get up , Miss Channing ; and it is nothing short of punishment to me to do so . '' `` The punishment of self-denial we all have to bear , Caroline . But I can tell you what will take away half its sting . ''