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332 ANNALS OF NEEDLEWOMEN.
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daughter ' s account ; she seemed to iiave exercised no rule over her own household . Continual quarrels seem to have taken place
between her and her daughters , till Mrs . pronounced that it was impossible they could all live together any longerand therefore
, placed the two girls as parlor boarders at a cheap boarding-school she knew of , paying £ 20 a year for each . I believe she then ,
having thus disposed of her family , returned to the boarding-house , —a life which , with her limited means , apparently pleased her as
affording more society . At this second-rate school , as half-pupils , half-boarders , little
attention seems to have been paid to the educational part of the arrangements . Perhaps out of £ 20 there was not much left to
defray such expenses The two girls went out of an evening with the mistress , and in the day-time walked by themselves
to places of amusement , and for a time were very happy . " SometimesAnne saidthey did lessons ; sometimes helped to teach .
, , They were within a walk of their mother ' s residence , and saw her frequently ; being , it is evident , better friends with her than when
under the same roof . Youth often imagines itself happy when free from restraint . The fact of the mother being near and sanctioning
their having so much liberty , served to ease the conscience- of the schoolmistress , who scarcely placed any "watch over the actions of
the young ladies . They had a great many friends in a good position In life ( Anne gave me their addresses ) who had supplied them from
time to time with pocket-money for dress ; these parties they also visited occasionally . Their friends , however , never . made any
Inquiry about the people they were with , what acquaintances they madeor how their education progressed .
The , elder girl was very handsome , had an elegant figure , and received much admiration ; Anne was pleasing and lively . The
account she gave of their first meeting with the individual who caused them to get into trouble at the school was as follows : —
After they had been a year or two at the school there was a little party given , and a foreign gentleman , the new German master of
the establishment , was present . From that time , having "been introducedhe paid great attention to Anne . They met at the
housein their , walksand more than once he took both sisters to the Crystal , Palace for , the day , paying every expense , and making
parties of his friends to meet them there . No one knew of these arrangements at first ; the girls thought it good fun , and derived
much amusement from these pleasure-parties . It was there that Herr proposed to Anne to marry him ; she immediately , and very
properly , informed her mother , and asked her advice . Then , and not till thenwas Mrs . ' s pride hurt at the idea of her daughter
marrying a , German master , and she positively refused her consent , and ordered her daughter not to see him any more . She also
called on the schoolmistress , wrote to the German , and showed a
great amount of virtuous indignation at his audacity . She did not ,, i
332 Annals Of Needlewomen.
332 ANNALS OF NEEDLEWOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1862, page 332, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071862/page/44/
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