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Updated: June 23, 2025
It was the dull blank time when everybody who could afford to wander far from this suburban paradise, was away upon his and her travels. Only parsons, doctors, schoolmistresses, and poverty stayed at home. Yet now and then a youth in boating costume glided by, his shoulders bending slowly to the lazy dip of his oars, his keel now and then making a rushing sound among long trailing weeds.
Of course, when these things are ready and the pressure to enforce them begins to tell on the schools, schoolmasters and schoolmistresses, having that almost instinctive dread of any sort of change that all hard-worked and rather worried people acquire, will obstruct and have to be reckoned with, but that is a detail in the struggle and not a question of general objective.
It only wanted to be floored, and to have a partition taken down, but to this Markham would not consent, treating it as a monstrous proposal to take away the school from old Jenny Robinson. 'I suppose Mr. Ashford meant to pension her off? said Guy. 'He did say something about it; but who is to do it, I should like to know? 'We are, I suppose. 'Pay two schoolmistresses mistresses at once!
"If we could we should know exactly what to do; but she was always telling me things and I've got them all mixed up." "Will Tousin Charlotte whip us if we don't do right?" asked Poppy, in an awe-stricken voice. "No one knows," said Esther, still in the same tragic, woebegone manner. "She may. I believe schoolmistresses are very strict. We shall know when we get there."
Yesterday afternoon J and I went to Birkenhead Park, which I have already described. . . . It so happened that there was a large school spending its holiday there; a school of girls of the lower classes, to the number of a hundred and fifty, who disported themselves on the green, under the direction of the schoolmistresses and of an old gentleman.
Now, I do believe that if those tracts which you are publishing, which I have read and of which I cannot speak too highly, are spread over the length and breadth of the land, and if women clergymen's wives, the wives of manufacturers and of great employers, district visitors and schoolmistresses, have these books put into their hands, and are persuaded to spread them, and to enforce them, by their own example and by their own counsel that then, in the course of a few years, this system being thoroughly carried out, you would see a sensible and large increase in the rate of population.
But probably all of them are still boasting their languages and their examinations. It's all they have left not happiness or health or innocence, but their matriculation. Good God!" "But surely some of you have become schoolmistresses with good salaries?" "Good salaries! Anyhow, first we had to start studying all over again.
Yet observe what a difficulty we are faced with. Perceiving the injurious consequences of delay in marriage consequences which, as we have seen, if considered only as they show themselves in the most horrible department of pathology, would be sufficient to demand the most urgent consideration we may almost feel inclined to agree with the utterly blind and deplorable doctrine too common amongst parents and schoolmistresses, who should know so much better, that it is good to see the young things falling in love, and that the sooner they are married the better.
Under these safeguards, portly clergymen, schoolmistresses, gentlemen in grey tweed suits, and all the ruck and rabble of British touristry pour unhindered, "Murray" in hand, over the railways of the Continent, and yet the slim person of the Arethusa is taken in the meshes, while these great fish go on their way rejoicing.
Then came Miss Torsen and Mrs. Molie, who were both to stay for the summer. They were followed by Schoolmaster Staur, who would stay a week. Later came two schoolmistresses, the Misses Johnsen and Palm, and still later Associate Schoolmaster Hoey and several others tradesmen, telephone operators, a few people from Bergen, one or two Danes.
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