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What did St John Rivers think of this earthly angel? I naturally

asked myself that question as I saw hiht the answer to the inquiry in his

countenance He had already withdrawn his eye fro at a hurew by the wicket

"A lovely evening, but late for you to be out alone," he said, as he

crushed the snowy heads of the closed floith his foot

"Oh, I only cae

town some twenty miles distant) "this afternoon Papa told me you

had opened your school, and that the new mistress was come; and so I

put on my bonnet after tea, and ran up the valley to see her: this

is she?" pointing to me

"It is," said St John

"Do you think you shall like Morton?" she asked of me, with a direct

and naive si, if child-like

"I hope I shall I have many inducements to do so"

"Did you find your scholars as attentive as you expected?"

"Quite"