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 as they feared I would not be pleased with the accommodation; but at length I so far succeeded, that I fixed to live with them three months upon trial, and that at the end of that time we should each be at liberty to separate without offence. From all that I have heard, no situation could be more suitable to my purpose. In a place where money is scarce, my income, slender as it is, may be useful. After a life of full employment, I could not be happy in idleness; and as these good people have a large family, I shall have among them constant employment, in the way that habit has rendered most delightful to me, that of training youth to usefulness and virtue."

Miss Mary began to express her fears of the trouble which Mrs Mason was about to bring upon her own head, when her father entered; and from the way in which he spoke upon the subject, she soon saw that he had already discussed it, and knew Mrs Mason's determination to