The Boarding School

ated herself at the piano, and in a careless manner began a voluntary. Elizabeth, who was reading a le

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is fashion

doing as we please: we seldom saw

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instructed in all the sciences; in the nature of valves; the specific gravity of bodies; the as

means Archimedes burned the ships of

f memorizing by hieroglyphics. This fo

ery gravely, "can you repeat the

highest order. But it was a charming seminary! We had no particular rules; we could go to rest, or

beth, "that we have robbed Madam

t know why; but he questioned me so closely, that I might as well have been before a court-martial. Indeed I am certain he wou

a really vind

e means of sending a merchant's daughter from school, by styling her 'Miss Thimbleton,' and 'the little seamstress.' Her mamma had the meanness, I may say t

lies, I pass over your presuming manner this morning; but recollect," said Elizabeth with firmness, "that it shall never be repeated. If yo

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