Miss W--- took her aside and told her she was afraid that she must place her in the second class for some time till she could overtake the girls of her own age in the knowledge of grammar, &c.; but poor Charlotte received this announcement with so sad a fit of crying, that Miss W---'s kind heart was softened, and she wisely perceived that, with such a girl, it would be better to place her in the first class, and allow her to make up by private study in those branches where she was deficient.
"She would confound us by knowing things that were out of our range altogether.

She was acquainted with most of the short pieces of poetry that we had to learn by heart; would tell us the authors, the poems they were taken from, and sometimes repeat a page or two, and tell us the plot.

She had a habit of writing in italics (printing characters), and said she had learnt it by writing in their magazine.

They brought out a 'magazine' once a month, and wished it to look as like print as possible.
She told us a tale out of it.

No one wrote in it, and no one read it, but herself, her brother, and two sisters.