Any change must have been for the better after that.

Who took charge of you ?" "My mother's sister took charge of me, an elder sister, who kept a school.

The time when I was most unhappy was the time when my aunt began to teach me.

'If you don't want to be beaten, and kept on bread and water,' she said, 'learn, you ugly little wretch, and be quick about it."' "Did she speak in that shameful way to the other girls ?" "Oh, no! I was taken into her school for nothing, and, young as I was, I was expected to earn my food and shelter by being fit to teach the lowest class.

The girls hated me.