IN THE HIDING-SCHOOL. 



19 



II. 



Bring forth the horse ! 



Byron. 



EING ready to start, Esmeralda, the 

 question now arises : "Is a riding- 

 school," as the girl asked about the 

 new French play, " a place to which 

 one can take her mother ? " Little girls too 

 young to dress themselves should be attended 

 by their mothers or by their maids, but an older 

 girl no more needs guardianship at riding-school 

 than at any other place at which she receives 

 instruction, and there is no more reason why 

 her mother should follow her into the ring than, 

 into the class-room. 



Her presence, even if she preserve absolutej 

 silence, will probably embarrass both teacher; 

 and pupil, and although her own children may- 

 not be affected by it, it will be decidedly trouble- 

 some to the children of other mothers. 



If, instead of being quiet, she talk, and itds. 

 the nature of the mother who accompanies, her*- 



