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As a , violent, and unamenable to reason One proof of the deplorable state of her mind was, that from her father's exareatly shocked at the 'unlady-like trick,' and wondered 'how she had picked it up' 'But you can soon break her of it, Miss Grey,' said she: 'it is only a habit; and if you will just gently remind her every time she does so, I aently re it was, and how distressing to the ears of decent people: but all in vain: I was only answered by a careless laugh, and, 'Oh, Miss Grey, how shocked you are! I'lad!' or, 'Well! I can't help it; papa shouldn't have taught me: I learned it all from him; and maybe a bit from the coachman'

Her brother John, alias Master Murray, was about eleven when I caood-natured in the ht have been a decent lad had he been properly educated; but noas as rough as a young bear, boisterous, unruly, unprincipled, untaught, unteachable--at least, for a governess under his e hireatly to my relief, in the course of a year; in a state, it is true, of scandalous ignorance as to Latin, as well as the s: and this, doubtless, would all be laid to the account of his education having been entrusted to an ignorant female teacher, who had presumed to take in hand what she holly incompetent to perform I was not delivered from his brother till full twelve months after, when he also was despatched in the sanorance as the for He was little er than John, but much smaller, paler, and less active and robust; a pettish, cowardly, capricious, selfish little fellow, only active in doingfalsehoods: not simply to hide his faults, but, inodiureat nuisance to me: it was a trial of patience to live with him peaceably; to watch over him orse; and to teach him, or pretend to teach him, was inconceivable At ten years old, he could not read correctly the easiest line in the si to his mother's principle, he was to be told every word, before he had tiraphy, and never even to be informed, as a stimulant to exertion, that other boys werethat he e of his education His rammar, &c, were to be repeated over to him, till he chose to say he knew them, and then he was to be helped to say them; if he made mistakes in his little easy sums in arithmetic, they were to be shown hi left to exercise his faculties in finding them out himself; so that, of course, he took no pains to avoid ures at random, without any calculation at all