'
'No one on earth,' said her aunt solemnly; 'and far better it is for
you, that you should teach in fear.'
'I sometimes fancy,' said Elizabeth, 'that the girls would do better
if we had the whole government of them, but I know that is but fancy;
they are each in the place and among the temptations which will do
them most good. But oh! it is a melancholy thing to remember that of
the girls whom I myself have watched through the school and out into
the world, there are but two on whom I can think with perfect
satisfaction.'
'Taking a high standard, of course?' said Lady Merton.
'Oh yes, and not reckoning many who I hope will do well, like this
one of whom I was talking, but who have had no trial,' said
Elizabeth; 'there are many very good ones now, if they will but keep
so. One of these girls that I was telling you of, has shewn that she
had right principle and firmness, by her behaviour towards a bad
fellow-servant; she is at Miss Maynard's.'
'And where is the other?' asked Anne.
'In her grave,' said Elizabeth.
'Ah!' said Helen, 'I missed her to-day, in the midst of her little
class, bending over them as she used to do, and looking in their
faces, as if she saw the words come out of their mouths.
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