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    The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies.
    The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies.
    The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies.
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      The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies. - Archive Classics

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      Title: The Boarding School

      Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils.

      Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies.

      Author: Unknown

      Release Date: January 14, 2009 [EBook #27804]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOARDING SCHOOL ***

      Produced by Jacqueline Jeremy and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      Contents

      THE

      BOARDING SCHOOL.

      THE

      BOARDING SCHOOL;

      OR

      FAMILIAR CONVERSATIONS

      BETWEEN A

      GOVERNESS AND HER PUPILS.

      WRITTEN FOR THE

      AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION

      OF

      YOUNG LADIES.

      LONDON:

      PRINTED FOR G. AND W. B. WHITTAKER,

      AVE-MARIA LANE.

      1823.

      LONDON:

      PRINTED BY COX AND BAYLIS, GREAT QUEEN STREET,

      LINCOLN’S-INN FIELDS.

      PREFACE.

      Those persons whose time is devoted to the instruction of youth, have not only abundant opportunities of ascertaining the capacities of their pupils, but of observing their various dispositions, and of noticing the effects which have been produced on them by previous habit and example. It seldom happens that amiability of temper, respectful behaviour to superiors, or kindness to inferiors, distinguish children who in their infancy have been left to the care of menials, or who have been suffered, by the blind indulgence of parents, to gratify their forward

      inclinations; and it as rarely occurs that those who have had the benefit of good example and parental admonition in the bud of life, display much propensity to vice as they grow up, unless their morals become contaminated by afterwards forming improper companions. With reference to the effects of early education, it has been most truly said, that

      Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclin’d.

      And though a variety of causes may operate to form the character, or give a bias to the mind, it is a fact not to be controverted, that early impressions are never wholly eradicated, and the magic of some well remembered maxim or parental caution will often come very seasonably to the aid of the most experienced.

      In pourtraying the characters which are introduced in The Boarding School, the Author has endeavoured to represent, by contrast, the amiable and unamiable passions; and, by exhibiting them in their true colours, to render her fair and youthful readers as emulous to imitate the one, as they will doubtless be to avoid the other; while the narrative, being of the most familiar kind, will, it is hoped, contribute to their amusement.

      THE BOARDING SCHOOL.

      CHAPTER I.

      Elizabeth Adair was stooping to prop a rose-tree in a viranda, when she hastily turned to her sister, and exclaimed, it is useless attending either to plants or flowers now: I must give up all my favourite pursuits.

      But you will have others to engage your attention, returned Jane.

      And will they afford me pleasure? You may as well say that I shall listen with joy to the foolish commands of some parents, and the haughty remarks of others.

      Let this be our comfort, said Jane, sensible people always treat the instructors of youth with respect; they neither command with pride, nor complain with insolence.

      But think of the change! We, who have had every indulgence, and no cares to perplex us!

      My dear Elizabeth, in the day of prosperity we seldom rejoice with thankfulness; but in the time of adversity, when our path is darkened, then we can bitterly repine. Surely we should place our joys and our sorrows against each other, as a defence from a murmuring spirit.

      It is not late trials that trouble me, but future vexations that I dread. You know that I have never been accustomed to stupid, drawling, spoiled children.

      I hope, said Jane, you will not have a class of this description to instruct.

      O, all things will be easy to you, for you love children and love teaching; but I have never applied my mind to any thing of the kind: I shall not know how to ask the most simple question in nature.

      Jane smiled, as she said, Since you are so very doubtful of your abilities, I think I will give a short lesson upon teaching. Suppose you ask your pupil if she has learned grammar: if she replies in the affirmative, desire her to explain the nature of the different parts of speech. Then try her abilities in the arithmetical tables, or from the history of England; tell her to relate some particular event in the reign of one of our kings, and go on to other subjects in a similar manner. In the first instance, however, always hear your pupil read; clear, distinct reading, with proper emphasis—I do not mean in a theatrical style—is one test of abilities; give her some pointed passage from history, or from any suitable book.

      I want an example, said Elizabeth.

      Now, sister, you are trifling, and will lead me to trifle in return.

      In 1199 John signed Magna Charta, the bulwark of English liberty; or, the king wept when he found himself a prisoner; but the master of Glamis said—

      Go on, my dear Jane: the master of Glamis I will not have any thing to say to.

      You forget, said Jane, that we are not to finish a sentence with to, or for, or any word so insignificant. Let a little girl read, ‘remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth,’ or something in the same easy, impressive style. But consult my mother: she will give you the best information upon the subject of teaching.

      Ah, said Elizabeth, my spirits fail when I think of the task! I only wish the first week were over.

      It will pass away like all other things. We have only to be resolute in doing our duty, and leave the rest to Providence. Let us at all times remember our own excellent instructress: her ‘authority, when most severe, and mustering all its force, was but the graver countenance of love, watering at once and nourishing the plant.’

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      CHAPTER II.

      It will, perhaps, here be necessary to say something of Mrs. Adair; I will not, however, enter upon her motive for opening a boarding-school. It is a well known fact that the loss of fortune, contracted incomes, or troubles in one shape or another, are the origin of almost all female seminaries. I never heard but of one lady beginning a school, and persevering to the conclusion of a protracted life, without any motive but benefiting a friend. To her credit let me remark, that she never regretted this, as it may justly be styled, labour of love.

      Mrs. Adair’s personal appearance and manner were calculated to excite respect and deference from pupils. The general cast of her

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