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Sarah Fielding

The Governess; or, Little Female Academy

  • Ivana Lončarhar citeratför 5 år sedan
    I lost; and in this unhappy condition I lived, till I came to school, and here I found that other misses wanted to have their humours as well as myself.
  • Ivana Lončarhar citeratför 5 år sedan
    sweetness, mildness, modesty and good nature
  • Ivana Lončarhar citeratför 5 år sedan
    In short, Mrs. Teachum's school was always mentioned throughout the country, as an example of peace and harmony; and also by the daily improvement of all her girls, it plainly appeared how early young people might attain great knowledge, if their minds were free from foolish
  • Ivana Lončarhar citeratför 5 år sedan
    Miss Polly Suckling was just turned of eight years old, but so short of her age, that few people took her to be above five.
  • Ivana Lončarhar citeratför 5 år sedan
    I learnt anything, my comfort was to laugh at him because he could not learn so fast; by which means I got a good deal of learning, but never minded what I learnt, nor took any pains to keep it
  • Ivana Lončarhar citeratför 5 år sedan
    Miss Henny Fret was turned of nine years old.
  • Ivana Lončarhar citeratför 5 år sedan
    After Kitty's death, I lived tolerably easy, till I came to school. Then the same desire of beauty returned, and I hated all the misses who were handsomer than myself, as much as I had before hated my sister, and always took every opportunity of quarrelling with them
  • Ivana Lončarhar citeratför 5 år sedan
    Miss Betty Ford was of the same age with Miss Nanny Spruce, and much of the same height, and might be called the plainest girl in the school
  • Ivana Lončarhar citeratför 5 år sedan
    but as soon as I came to school, where other misses were as fine as myself, and some finer, I grew very miserable.
  • Ivana Lončarhar citeratför 5 år sedan
    she had little limbs, little features, and such a compactness in her form, that she was often called the little fairy.
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