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 leys, to come and pay, too. She has earned her money hardly enough, I'm sure, poor pretty lady!"

"O, very hardly, to be sure!" cried Lady Arramede; "to play and sing are vast hardships!"

"O, quite insupportable!" said Miss Sycamore: "I don't wonder she complains. Especially as she has so much else to do with her time."

"Do you think it very agreeable, then, ladies," cried Mr. Giles, "to teach all that thrim thrum?"

"Why what harm can it do her?" said Miss Brinville: "I don't see how she can well do any thing that can give her less trouble. She has only just to point out one note, or one finger, instead of another."

"Why yes, that's all she does, sure enough," said Miss Bydel, for I have seen her give her lessons."

"What, then, ladies," cried Mr. Giles, surprised; "do you count for nothing being obliged to go out when