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Rh conscience to leave such a torment with a stranger, but she is far beyond our management at home. I own that I have been to blame, but you can enter into my feelings, it was natural to err on the side of over indulgence." She now rose to depart, adding, "I will not ask to see Julia, for she will be sure to cry to come away with me. I therefore leave her in your good care, and only hope you will have less trouble with her than I have. No doubt school will do wonders for her."

"How unreasonable people are," thought Mrs. Wilson to herself, as she returned from the door to which she had conducted her visitor. "First, children are allowed to have their own way in every thing, reasonable or unreasonable. They are taught a thousand unnecessary wants, encouraged in a thousand foolish and injurious practices, are, in short utterly spoilt, and unused to restraint, employment, or reproof–are sent to me, indeed, expecting that 'my school will do wonders for them.' Still that little girl has such a sweet countenance, she looked so pale, so delicate, and so