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The gentlemen had found it desirable to adopt a tunic in place of the more expensive, old-world coat."* The income of the association was derived from various sources other than the prices paid for board. There was a school for young children, presided over by Mrs. Ripley, assisted by various pupil-teachers, who thus partially recompensed the community for their own support.
Wendover of the Abbey. 'Mr. Wendover of the Abbey, the head of the Wendover family? cried Miss Pew. 'And you would wish us to believe that Mr. Wendover, of Wendover Abbey a gentleman with an estate worth something like seven thousand a year, young ladies has engaged himself to the youngest of my pupil-teachers, whose acquaintance he has cultivated while trespassing on my meadow?
The name of one was Blanche. The name of the other was Anne. Both were the children of poor parents, both had been pupil-teachers at the school; and both were destined to earn their own bread. Personally speaking, and socially speaking, these were the only points of resemblance between them. Blanche was passably attractive and passably intelligent, and no more.
How irksome in many of its incidents it remained we can see in his published Letters. "I have had a hard day. Thirty pupil-teachers to examine in an inconvenient room, and nothing to eat except a biscuit which a charitable lady gave me." "This certainly has been one of the most uncomfortable weeks I ever spent.
A government, on the other hand, which neither does any thing itself that can possibly be done by any one else, nor shows any one else how to do any thing, is like a school in which there is no schoolmaster, but only pupil-teachers who have never themselves been taught. Of Nationality, as connected with Representative Government.
Janetta had to learn her lessons when the other girls had gone to bed, in a little room under the roof; a room which was like an ice-house in winter and an oven in summer; she was never able to be in time for her classes, and she often missed them altogether; but, in spite of these disadvantages, she generally proved herself the most advanced pupil in her division, and if pupil-teachers had been allowed to take prizes, would have carried off every first prize in the school.
Elsmere had been 'that good' to them that anything they could do to oblige him 'they would, and welcome; prim pupil-teachers, holding themselves with straight superior shoulders; children, who came trooping in, grinned up into Robert's face and retreated again with red cheeks, the silver badge tight clasped in hands which not even much scrubbing could make passable.
To be entrusted with the key of this pastoral retreat was a privilege only accorded to governesses and pupil-teachers. It was supposed by Miss Pew that no young person in her employment would be capable of walking quite alone, where it was within the range of possibility that her solitude might be intruded upon by an unknown member of the opposite sex.
Patteson, 'I could not land my two pupil-teachers, who, of course, wished to see their friends, and who made me more desirous to give them a run on shore, by saying at once: "Don't think of us, it is not safe to go."
Some of the difficulties are the following: Parents who send their children to the Model School object to have their children taught to any considerable extent by mere pupil-teachers.
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