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one who possesses so many natural and acquired qual- 

 ifications for so novel and arduous an undertaking. 

 Her success has been great. She has done far better 

 than I could have done. Her gentleness and equa- 

 nimitj of temper have tended to keep her pupil in that 

 happy mean between excesses of feeling, to which 

 persons of her temperament are constitutionally 

 disposed. 



" Laura loves her and respects her, and makes no 

 severer criticism upon her than the playful one in the 

 following extract from her little diary : — 



" ' I had a very pleasant day. I havo been very 

 hilarious. I could not help laughing incessantly. My 

 mind is very full of drollery and mirthfulness. I wish 

 that my dear teacher would have a little share of my 

 mirthfulness. She does not like fun as well as I do 

 — I love fun so much. 



" * As I was very busily engaged at eleven o'clock, 

 I was agreeably interrupted by some circumstances 

 which occurred so unexpectedly. It was [the 

 entrance of] one of my dear friends, Miss E. R., the 

 sister of my old teacher. She took my dirty right 

 hand, greeting me very warmly — who wore gloves. 



" ' I asked her how she liked our sunny home ; 

 she said she admired it very much. She surveyed it 



