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 she seems to have had charge of Lady Chester. Miss Grenville lived with the other guardian."

"T cannot think how she comes to know so much abont schools," said Janet, who had hitherto considered herself quite unequalled in that line; "she seems to go to our school every day, and says Mr. Greydon thinks this, and Mr, Greydon wishes me to do that; and it appears he called at Pleasance again to-day. Very odd, he hardly ever speaks when 1 am at the school, and as for calling, he has only called twice since he came to Dulham. However," she added humbly, "it is not very surprising he should like to go to Pleasance. He is so very superior himself, that he naturally likes other superior people; and to be sure, Lady Chester and her sister are very different from any of us. Rose, don't you wish that mamma and you and I were regular fine ladies?"

"Oh, my dear," interrupted Mrs Hopkinson, "don't talk so. You and Rose may try to be like those two pretty creatures if you