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her announcement that she would never come 

 again, the society young lady has appeared, and 

 has announced her intention to defend what she 

 grandly terms her position as a lady. 



" And the master will think us, her associates, 

 as unruly as she is ! " Nell almost sobs. " If I 

 were he, I would send the whole class home, 

 there ! " But the other girls now enter, each 

 magnificently polite to the others, and the file of 

 nine begins its journey along the wall, attended as 

 before, the society young lady taking great pains 

 about distance, and really doing very well, but 

 the beauty sitting with calm negligence which 

 soon brings a volley of remonstrance from both 

 teachers, who address her much after the fash- 

 ion of Sydney Smith's saying, " You are on the 

 high road to ruin the moment you think yourself 

 rich enough to be careless." 



" You must not keep your whip in contact 

 with your horse's shoulder all the time," lec- 

 tures one of the teachers, " if you do, you have 

 no means of urging him to go forward a little 

 faster. Keep it pressed against the saddle, not 

 slanting outward or backward. When you use 

 it, do it without relaxing your hold upon the 



