CHAPTER XIV.
MISS MULBERRY--DISCIPLINE AND RECREATION--MADAME--CONVERSATION--ELEANOR'S OPINION OF THE DRAWING-MASTER--MISS ELLEN'S--ELEANOR'S APOLOGY.
Miss Mulberry was our school-mistress, and the head of the Bush House establishment.

"Madame" was only a French mistress employed by Miss Mulberry, though she had more to do with the pupils than Miss Mulberry herself.
Miss Mulberry was stout, and I think by nature disposed to indolence, especially in warm weather.

It was all the more creditable to her that she had worked hard for many years to support a paralytic mother and a delicate sister.

The mother was dead now.

Miss Ellen Mulberry, though an invalid, gave some help in teaching the younger ones; and Bush House had for so long been a highly-reputed establishment that Miss Mulberry was more or less prosperous, and could afford to keep a French governess to do the hard work.
Miss Mulberry was very conscientious, very kind-hearted, and the pink of propriety.