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Nor are Egeria's ex-pupils less efficient as labourers or domestic servants because they are interested in good literature, in Nature-study, in acting, or because they can still dance the Morris Dances and sing the Folk Songs which they learned in school.
So I suppose I must be a tutor, knocked about from one house to another, patronized by ex-pupils, and smiled upon as harmless by mammas and sisters to the end of the chapter. And then something of a pauper's burial, I suppose. Che sara sara. Ericson had sunk into one of his worst moods. But when he saw Robert looking unhappy, he changed his tone, and would be what he could not be merry.
The employers of labour in the neighbourhood of Utopia will tell you that there are no slackers or loafers in the yearly output of the school. Egeria recently received a visit from one of her ex-pupils, a girl of fourteen who is at home keeping house for her father, and who said to her in the course of their conversation: "I do just love washing days; I get up before six and start.
We have but to name the qualities which are characteristic, as we have already seen, of her pupils and ex-pupils, activity, versatility, imaginative sympathy, a large and free outlook, self-forgetfulness, charm of manner, joy of heart, in order to convince ourselves that those who have passed through the Utopian school are on the high road which leads to "goodness."
There were the Dasher girls, two young collegians from Cambridge ex-pupils of the vicar to entertain Bessie and Seraphine, Lizzie Dangler, Horner with his inseparable eye-glass and faultless toilet, Baby Blake for his entertainment Miss Pimpernell was a wise caterer Min, and myself.
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