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Her character and her abilities being well known, she easily procured recommendations as a preceptress. Many ladies anxiously desired to engage such a governess for their children, but Mrs. Harcourt had the good fortune to obtain the preference. Mrs.
As I once before told you, intellect is our only standard of excellence. It alone occupies an exalted place and receives the homage of our people." In a subsequent conversation with her mother, the Preceptress, she said: "In remote ages, great honor and deference was paid to all who were born of rulers, and the designation 'noble blood, was applied to them.
She was fain to ask Katherine to help her in choosing, much to the latter's satisfaction, as she did not like to offer assistance, though she wished to influence the choice of a preceptress. Together they fixed on a quiet, kindly looking young woman, to whom both took rather a fancy, and Katherine felt very much relieved to know that this important point was settled. But Mrs.
You have two demerits to work off, instead of one." Mary Cox ruffled up instantly. She flounced into her seat and threw her book aside. "Miss Cox," repeated the Preceptress, sharply, "I do not like your manner. Most of these girls are younger than you, and you are their leader. I believe you are all members of the Up and Doing Club. Have a care.
They had to evict an old squatter. I want you all to come with me for the mid-winter holiday. What do you say, Ruthie?" asked Belle, eagerly. "I say it's a long look ahead," responded Ruth, slowly. "It's very kind of you, Belle. But I'll have to write home first, of course. I'd like to go, though to Cliff Island yes, indeed!" Ann Hicks must see the preceptress at once.
"But Utanka having recovered his ear-rings thought, 'O, this is that sacred day of my preceptress. I am at a distance. How can I, therefore, show my regard for her?
I began to think they might owe a goodly portion of their exceptional health to it, and a large share of their national amiability to their physical comfort. I made some such observation to the Preceptress, and she admitted its correctness.
When, then, nature herself, and a certain generous feeling of virtue, at once prevents you from persisting in the assertion that pain is the chief evil, and when you were driven from such an opinion when disgrace was contrasted with pain, shall philosophy, the preceptress of life, cling to this idea for so many ages?
"Silly girl!" exclaimed her preceptress, "I did not say it filled all the valleys, but the higher valleys valleys such as, in England and Scotland, would be clothed with pasturage and waving grain, and dotted with cattle and sheep and smiling cottages." Mrs Stoutley had by this time risen to a heroic frame, and spoke poetically, which accounts for her ascribing risible powers to cottages.
"Euphemia," announced Lady Augusta, "is well, and I trust" as if she rather doubted her having so far overcome old influences of an evil nature, "I trust improving, though I regret to hear from her preceptress that she is singularly deficient in application to her musical lessons." Dolly thought of the professor with the lumpy face, and smiled again.
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