Well, I simply hate school.

I don't care for children--they are unpleasant, troublesome little things, whom nothing would delight so much as to hear that you had fallen down dead.
Yet I would even put up with them if it was not for the inspector.

For three months before his visit I didn't sleep soundly.

And the Committee of Council are always changing the Code, so that you don't know what to teach, and what to leave untaught.

I think father and mother are right.
They say I shall never excel as a schoolmistress if I dislike the work so, and that therefore I ought to get settled by marrying Mr.Heddegan.
Between us two, I like him better than school; but I don't like him quite so much as to wish to marry him.' These conversations, once begun, were continued from day to day; till at length the young girl's elderly friend and landlady threw in her opinion on the side of Miss Trewthen's parents.