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gentlewomen that was attached to the Temple 

 at Jerusalem, under the direction of the Chief 

 Priest's wife, or some one of his near female 

 relatives. Here all well-to-do Jewish young 

 women completed their education, and here 

 accordingly we find the Virgin, whose parents 

 desired she should shine in every accomplish- 

 ment, and enjoy all the advantages their ample 

 means commanded. 



I have met with no traces of the Virgin 

 during the years between her Presentation in 

 the Temple and her becoming head girl at 

 Temple College. These years, we may be 

 assured, can hardly have been other than 

 eventful ; but incidents, or bits of life, are 

 like living forms it is only here and here, as 

 by rare chance, that one of them gets arrested 

 and fossilised ; the greater number disappear 

 like the greater number of antediluvian mol- 

 luscs, and no one can say why one of these 

 flies, as it were, of life should get preserved 

 in amber more than another. Talk, indeed, 

 about luck and cunning ; what a grain of sand 

 as against a hundredweight is cunning's share 



here as against luck's. What moment could 



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