Fisher was resolved it should not be so in his wife's house. He and his wife had agreed that the young ladies she employed should be lodged and boarded under her roof, unless they had respectable parents who could and would be fully answerable for them; and they should have a plentiful and a pleasant table--that he was resolved upon. As he was competent to little else, he took this matter upon himself. He calculated what ought fairly to be laid out, and he laid it all out. He would not economize a penny. If he was able to make a good bargain with his butcher, the young ladies, not he, should have the benefit of it all. They should have a bit of fish, or a little poultry, or a little good fruit, poor girls, to vary a meal, to which they could not bring the sturdy appetite of much out-of-door exercise. Then came the great chapter of that exercise. There was the difficulty--how much time could Mrs. Fisher possibly afford to lose?--to abandon to this object?--for the work must _pay_--or it could not continue to be done. But the difficulty diminished upon examination. Time may be counted by strength as well as by minutes. The same thing may, by two different hands, be accomplished in most unequal portions of time. The dreadful feeling of weariness, which, as Lucy, she so well remembered--one consequence of sitting so long in an unchanged position, and at the same employment--that dreadful feeling could not be forgotten by her. Her horror at the recollection was so strong, that of this matter she thought more than even her benevolent husband. He recollected to have heard that the Jesuits, those masters of human development, physical as well as intellectual, never suffered a pupil to be employed more than two hours upon the same thing without a change--to get up and turn round the chair--to pace five minutes up and down the room would in many cases suffice. Mr. Fisher laid down his plan. Two hours the young ladies worked, and then for ten minutes they were allowed to lay down their needles; they might walk about the room, into the passage, up and down stairs, or sit still and lounge. That precious, useful _lounge_, so fatally denied to the wearied spine of many a growing girl, was here permitted. They might look about them, or close their eyes and be stupefied; in short, do just what they liked. It was soon found by experience that the work done after this refreshing pause more than made up for the time thus expended. Such were some of the plans of this kind-hearted and highly-principled man--and the blooming looks, the gay spirits, the bright eyes, of the happy little community did credit to the scheme. Fisher lived but a few years to carry out the rule he had instituted; but to his wife it was as a sacred legacy from his hand, and during the whole course of her subsequent life she faithfully adhered to it.