It happened to be the end of a term; and before the next began, a very nice young woman, who had been her assistant, was announced as her successor, and she was provided for elsewhere.

So it was no longer the schoolmistress that I walked with, but--Let us not be in unseemly haste.

I shall call her the schoolmistress still; some of you love her under that name.
When it became known among the boarders that two of their number had joined hands to walk down the long path of life side by side, there was, as you may suppose, no small sensation.

I confess I pitied our landlady.

It took her all of a suddin,--she said.