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deal of trouble, but which, when done, will, I 

 am sure, be beautiful. One dear little girl is 

 simply reading " Paul and Virginia " under- 

 neath the window, and is so concealed that I 

 hardly think she can be seen from the outside 

 at all, though from inside she is delightful ; it 

 was with great regret that I could not get her 

 into any photograph. One most amiable 

 young woman has got a child's head on her 

 lap, the child having played itself to sleep. 

 All are industriously and agreeably employed 

 in some way or other ; all are plump ; all are 

 nice looking ; there is not one Becky Sharp in 

 the whole school; on the contrary, as in 

 "Pious Orgies," all is pious or sub-pious 

 and all, if not great, is at least eminently re- 

 spectable. One feels that St. Joachim and 

 St. Anne could not have chosen a school more 

 judiciously, and that if one had a daughter 

 oneself this is exactly where one would wish 

 to place her. If there is a fault of any kind in 

 the arrangements, it is that they do not keep 

 cats enough. The place is overrun with mice, 

 though what these can find to eat I know not. 

 It occurs to me also that the young ladies 



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