They were expressly given to understand that such was their department; the buying in and management of the provisions rested with Mr.Wilson and the cook.

The teachers would, of course, be unwilling to lay any complaints on the subject before him.
There was another trial of health common to all the girls.

The path from Cowan Bridge to Tunstall Church, where Mr.Wilson preached, and where they all attended on the Sunday, is more than two miles in length, and goes sweeping along the rise and fall of the unsheltered country, in a way to make it a fresh and exhilarating walk in summer, but a bitter cold one in winter, especially to children like the delicate little Brontes, whose thin blood flowed languidly in consequence of their feeble appetites rejecting the food prepared for them, and thus inducing a half- starved condition.

The church was not warmed, there being no means for this purpose.

It stands in the midst of fields, and the damp mist must have gathered round the walls, and crept in at the windows.