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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EARLY RECOLLECTIONS. TIIE FRENCH TEACHER. It is now more than twenty years since 1, a petted child of ten years old, born and bred Jn the country, and as shy as a hare, Was sent to that scene of bustle and confusion, a London school. O what a change it was! Vhatatcrriblechange! The good old nurse, and the sweet gentle mama, and the dear, dear papa, who in their several ways seemed to have no other object .than that of spoiling me from morning to night, ?to leave them and my own dear home for this strangenew place, and these strange new people, ?what a change! And so many of theml and children, too! Men and women I could have endured: but I had been a solitary chrld, and hated nothing so much as the din, the laughter, the shrill voices, and rapid motions of children. They fairly made me dizzy. I shall never forget the misery of the first two days, blushing to be looked at, dreading to be spoken to, shrinking like a sensitive plant from the touch, ashamed to cry, and feeling as if I never could laugh again. I was broken-hearted. These disconsolate feelings are not astonishing, even in recollection: the wonder is, that they so soon passed away. But every body was good and kind. There was just attention enough from the heads of the house, and a merciful neglect from the pupils. Inless than a week the poor wild bird was tamed. I Could look without fear on the bright happy faces; listen without starting to the clear high voices, even though they talked in French; began to watch the ball and the battledore; and felt something like an inclination to join in the sports. In short I soon became an efficient member of the commonwealth; as efficient as a quiet little girl of ten years old could be; made a friend, provided myself with a school-mother, a fine tall blooming girl, who, having..


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217245159
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 68
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217245153
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 141 gr


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