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Rh Julia some advice about her behaviour at school. Alas, for the weary hours now passed on two small upright chairs, listening to a succession of reproofs: "As to Julia, I am sure, if I were her, I should be ashamed of going to school such a dunce—the youngest child in it will laugh at her. I expect that you will pass the next half-year in the corner, with a foolscap on. You will find it very different to being spoilt, as you are at home: I shall have trouble enough with Ellen. Are you dumb, child? Though, I believe you can find your tongue fast enough when you are with servants." At last, quite tired out, and taking a sort of courage from despair, Julia asked if they might go and finish their walk, and bid goodbye to Mrs. Whyte? The old housekeeper lived now in the village.

"I will have nothing of the kind," cried Mrs. Dalton, "you have enough to do with servants in the house, without going out in search of them; and as to Julia, going walking herself to death, I will not hear of it. Terrible as it is, you will have