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letters down

"I shall go to the school at York," said Mary "I am less unfit to

teach in a school than in a family I like to teach classes best

And, you see, Iseehtful work in the world," said Mrs

Garth, with a touch of rebuke in her tone "I could understand your

objection to it if you had not knowledge enough, Mary, or if you

disliked children"

"I suppose we never quite understand why another dislikes e like,

mother," said Mary, rather curtly "I am not fond of a schoolroom: I

like the outside world better It is a very inconvenient fault of

irls' school," said Alfred

"Such a set of ninco two and

two"

"And they have no ga at," said Jim "They can neither

throw nor leap I don't wonder at Mary's not liking it"

"What is that Mary doesn't like, eh?" said the father, looking over his

spectacles and pausing before he opened his next letter

"Being airls," said Alfred

"Is it the situation you had heard of, Mary?" said Caleb, gently,