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She, as teacher,the to do All else she would

forsake She had becoeful on

herself as well as on the She did

not want to be a person, to be herself any more, after such

humiliation She would assert herself forto fight and subdue

She knew by now her enemies in the class The one she hated

h to

be so classed He could read with fluency, and had plenty of

cunning intelligence But he could not keep still And he had a

kind of sickness very repulsive to a sensitive girl, soenerate Once he had thrown an

ink-well at her, in one of his es Twice he had

run horinned up his sleeve at this girl-teacher, so round her to fawn on her But this made her dislike him

more He had a kind of leech-like power

From one of the children she took a supple cane, and this she

deter, at

composition, she said to the boy Williams: "Why have you made this blot?"

"Please,voice that he was so clever in using The boys near

snorted with laughter For Willias of his hearers subtly Particularly he could

tickle the children with hi his teacher, or