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Updated: May 16, 2025
The boys in the contemporary public boarding-schools secured a little privacy by the adoption of strange and sometimes cruel social customs, and more has been done since then by systems of 'studies' and 'houses. Experience seems, however, to show that during childhood a day school with its alternation of home, class-room, and playing field, is better suited than a boarding-school to the facts of normal human nature.
"I will depend upon you, then, for I shall start for California as soon as possible. Can you recommend a satisfactory boarding-school?" "I have a son at school in Lincoln. The school is under the charge of a clergyman, who is an efficient teacher, yet is popular with his pupils." "Can you arrange to enter Frank at his school?" "I will do so, if you authorize me."
In the recess, as it was called, or interval of suspended studies in the middle of the forenoon, this girl carried her autograph-book, for she had one of those indispensable appendages of the boarding-school miss of every degree, and asked Elsie to write her name in it.
Its geometric grounds matched those of the park, itself a monument to bad taste in landscape. The neighbourhood was highly respectable, and inhabited by families of German extraction. There were two flaxen-haired daughters who had just graduated from an expensive boarding-school in New York, where they had received the polish needful for future careers. But the careers were not forthcoming.
A certain passage had to do with her experience at a girls' boarding-school when she was probably not more than ten or eleven. One of the teachers an unimpeachable lady of great learning and little human perception, it would seem had aroused her intense disfavor. There were various references to this feud and also, even so early, to the mysterious person vaguely alluded to as He.
The school was conducted by Madame Vigogne, widow of the colonel of that name, and an old friend of the Empress, who had advised her to take a boarding-school, and promised to procure for her as many pupils as she could.
The Squire assisted her to alight, and saluted her affectionately; the fair Julia flew into her arms, and they embraced with the romantic fervour of boarding-school friends: she was escorted into the house by Julia's lover, towards whom she showed distinguished favour; and a line of the old servants, who had collected in the Hall, bowed most profoundly as she passed.
It's not worth while to say more about it. And tearful invocations to nature are mortally absurd. Let us get back to my story. I was brought up, as I have said, very badly and not happily. I had no brothers or sisters. I was educated at home. And, indeed, what would my mother have had to occupy her, if I had been sent to a boarding-school or a government college?
How could she stand it? If only she might have gone to boarding-school. Why had Aunt Caroline and Aunt Virginia agreed to her coming? They did not like her. Nothing she did pleased them. Charlotte looked about for a refuge where she might fling herself down and cry her heart out. She rose and stole on tiptoe into the drawing-room. Here the same absolute order prevailed.
I propose now to give another leaf from the same book. The incident about to be narrated, however, is not given as an illustration of boarding-school life, but merely because it happened at school. It might have happened elsewhere, though the circumstances on that occasion were particularly favorable for giving to it a curious point.
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