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work was not neglected for the affairs of the Mendip schools, which indeed could not be visited in the winter months by ladies far from strong, so that December sent the sisters to their house at Bath.

Thence Hannah wrote on the New Year's Day of 1792:—

"The waters, I think, are doing me good, and I have been very much better since I came to close winter quarters, owing, under God, to my being quite shut up. Much as I love air and exercise, the loss of them is but a petty sacrifice to what many are called to make; and as I have no avocation at present which makes it a duty to run risks by going out, I am thankful to be furnished with so good a pretence for laying in a little