schoolmistressy

Updated: May 9, 2025

Henceforth work, work, work teaching by day, correcting exercises by night, in a deserted schoolroom, with three months' holiday a year spent at home among brothers and sisters whose interests had necessarily drifted apart from her own! As the years passed by she would become staid and prim; schoolmistressy manner; the girls would speak of her by derisive nicknames...

Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey - A College Girl