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Updated: June 25, 2025
It will be the special aim of the teachers to educate their pupils out of all provincialisms, so that they may be recognized as well-bred English scholars wherever the language is spoken in its purity." Extract from the Prospectus of Madam Delacoste's Boarding-school. Myrtle Hazard was a puzzle to all the girls. Striking, they all agreed, but then the criticisms began.
Mrs. or Madam Delacoste's boarding-school had a name which on the whole it deserved pretty well. She had some very good instructors for girls who wished to get up useful knowledge in case they might marry professors or ministers. They had a chance to learn music, dancing, drawing, and the way of behaving in company.
William Murray Bradshaw, which explained the interest he had taken in Madam Delacoste's school, all which she knew pretty nearly beforehand, for she had found out a good part of Myrtle's history in the half-hour they had spent in company. "I had a particular reason for my inquiries about the school," he wrote. "There is a young girl there I take an interest in.
That rare accident in the lives of people who have nothing to do, a leisure morning, did at last occur. An elegant carriage, with a coachman in a wonderful cape, seated on a box lofty as a throne, and wearing a hat-band as brilliant as a coronet, stopped at the portal of Madam Delacoste's establishment. A card was sent in bearing the open sesame of Mrs.
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