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You have found your room?" "Yes, Mrs. Tellingham," replied Helen. The Preceptress turned to Ruth and shook hands with her. "And you are Ruth Fielding? Do as well this first half as your last teacher tells me you did, and we shall be good friends. Now, girls, sit down. Let us talk a bit." She had a quick, bright way of speaking; yet her words were not wasted nor her time. She did not talk idly.
The higher we rise in culture, the more difficult we are to please in music. Our taste becomes critical." I had been revolving some things in my mind while the Preceptress was speaking, and I now ventured to express them. I said: "You tell me that generations will come and go before a marked change can occur in a people.
The plan of education which had been traced out remained yet unfinished, and she feared, she said, that Isabella and Matilda might feel the want of their accomplished preceptress.
Madame de Noisville, dame d'honneur to the Princess Potemkin, educated her and her sisters: the friendship of the pupil and the preceptress does honour to both. Madame de Noisville is a very well-bred woman, of superior understanding and decided character, very entertaining and agreeable.
Soon she was out of sight behind the marble statue. "Come!" breathed the Preceptress. They heard Miss Picolet and the man chattering in their own language the man threatening, the woman pleading when the trio got to the fountain. Ruth was a poor French scholar, but of course Mrs. Tellingham understood what they said.
"It is the idea of not living up to the conditions," replied Helen. "If you and Hester will excuse me, I will explain to Miss Burkham. Perhaps, she will not object to my going with you. She would if you were not a cousin." She went directly to the preceptress and in a few moments returned with that lady herself, who listened to the story of the difficulties.
Therefore, please command me what I am to bring. Thus addressed, his preceptress replied, 'Go unto King Paushya and beg of him the pair of ear-rings worn by his Queen, and bring them hither. Then accomplish this, O Utanka! If thou shouldst succeed, good fortune shall attend thee; if not, what good canst thou expect? "Utanka thus commanded, took his departure.
I formed an intimate companionship with the daughter of the Preceptress of the National College, and to her was addressed the questions I asked about things that impressed me. She was one of the most beautiful beings that it had been my lot to behold.
Macy Cameron, a wealthy dry-goods merchant, and a widower, had selected the best school for his daughter to attend of which he could learn. Briarwood Hall, of which the preceptress was Mrs. It was not an institution particularly for the daughters of wealthy people, nor a school to which disheartened parents could send either unruly girls, or dunces. Without Mrs.
"And of course," drawled Laura Polk, she of the irrepressible spirits and what Mrs. She will yell for Dr. Beulah to come forth, and the minute the darling appears this Rude Rhoda from the Rolling Prairie will proceed to rope our dear preceptress and bear her off captive to her lair "
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