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but I thought your feelings were with poor Julian in the Tower , ' said Claude . ` My feelings prompt me to sacrifice my pleasure in reading about him to please papa , after he spoke so kindly . ' ` If that is always the effect of your principle , I shall think better of it , ' said Claude . Lily , whether from her new principle , or her old habits of obedience , never ventured to touch one of her tempters till after five o'clock , but , as she was a very rapid reader , she generally contrived to devour more than a sufficient quantity every evening , so that she did not enjoy them as much as she would , had she been less voracious in her appetite , and they made her complain grievously of the dulness of the latter part of Russell 's _ Modern Europe _ , which was being read in the schoolroom , and yawn nearly as much as Phyllis over the ` Pragmatic Sanction . ' However , when that book was concluded , and they began Palgrave 's _ Anglo Saxons _ , Lily was seized within a sudden historical fever . She could hardly wait till one o'clock , before she settled herself at the schoolroom table with her work , and summoned every one , however occupied , to listen to the reading . ` Multiplication Is a vexation . '