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Isabella got up to look at a drawing; Miss Fanshaw watched every step she took, and settled it in her own mind that Miss Harcourt did not walk as if she had ever been at Suxberry House.
Fanshaw watched Lady N 's eye as her daughter came into the room; but Lady N did not appear to be much struck with the second-hand graces of Suxberry House; her eye passed over Miss Fanshaw, in search of something less affected and more interesting.
Jane," said she, turning to her daughter, "I hope you won't take it into your head to turn out a reading lady!" "Oh dear, no!" said Miss Fanshaw: "we had not much time for reading at Suxberry House, we were so busy with our masters; we had a charming English master though, to teach us elocution, because it's so fashionable now to read loud well. Mrs.
Whose handsome coach is this, pray, with a coronet?" continued she, looking out of the window: "I declare it is stopping at your door; do let us go down. I'm never afraid of going into the room when there's company, for we were taught to go into a room at Suxberry House; and Mrs. Suxberry says it's very vulgar to be ashamed, and I assure you it's all custom.
I used to colour, as Miss Matilda does, every minute; but I got over it before I had been long at Suxberry House." Isabella, who had just been reading "A Father's Legacy to his Daughters," recollected at this instant Dr. Gregory's opinion, "that when a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of beauty."
I forgot mamma told me you'd got a new French governess lately our French teacher, at Suxberry House, was so strict, and so cross, if one made a mistake in the tenses: it's very well for you your governess is not cross does she give you very hard exercises? let me look at your exercise book, and I'll tell you whether it's the right one I mean that we used to have at Suxberry House."
Matilda endeavoured to engage the figure that sat beside her in conversation; but the figure had no conversation, and the utmost that Matilda could obtain was a few monosyllables pronounced with affected gravity; for at Suxberry House this young lady had been taught to maintain an invincible silence when produced to strangers; but she made herself amends for this constraint, the moment she was with her companions, by a tittering, gossiping species of communication, which scarcely deserves the name of conversation.
At Suxberry House, when we had got our task done, and finished with the writing-master and the drawing-master, and when we had practised for the music-master, and all that, we might be as idle as we pleased, and do what we liked out of school-hours you know that was very pleasant: I assure you, you'd like being at Suxberry House amazingly."
"And do you write themes?" said she "We always wrote themes once every week, at Suxberry House, which I used to hate of all things, for I never could find any thing to say it made me hate writing, I know; but that's all over now; thank goodness, I've done with themes, and French letters, and exercises, and translations, and all those plaguing things; and now I've left school for ever, I may do just as I please that's the best of going to school; it's over some time or other, and there's an end of it; but you that have a governess and masters at home, you go on for ever and ever, and you have no holidays either; and you have no out-of-school hours; you are kept hard at it from morning till night: now I should hate that of all things.
It was the translation of a part of "Les Conversations d'Emilie," which we formerly mentioned. "La!" said Miss Fanshaw, "we had no such book as this at Suxberry House." Matilda's translation she was surprised to find correct.
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