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are come to the great and distinctive work of Hannah More's life. The undertaking was facilitated by the fact that at the end of thirty-two years' diligence, the sisters had realised a sufficient competence to venture on resigning their school to their assistant, Miss Mills. They had built for themselves a house in Pulteney Street, Bath, which they intended to serve as their winter home, the summers being passed with Hannah at Cowslip Green. Bishop Horne wrote this appropriate congratulation: "May they have raised up a succession of daughters who may prove hereafter firm in principle as corner-stones to support the honour of their respective families; and in accomplishments polished after the similitude of a palace."

Hannah, at forty-four years old, was becoming somewhat weary of London talk; was yearning for