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Six to Sixteen

CHAPTER XIV
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In breaking faith with us daily by curtailing our allotted fifteen minutes of recreation, she deprived herself of rest to the exact amount by which she defrauded us.
She cannot have pined to begin to teach as soon as she had swallowed her food! I may do her an injustice, but the only reason I can think of as a likely one is that, by taking us unawares, she (I won't say hoped, but) expected to find us "in mischief." It was a weak point of the arrangements of Bush House that Miss Mulberry left us so much to the care of Madame.

Madame was twice as energetic as Miss Mulberry.

Madame never spared herself if she never spared us.
Madame was indefatigable, and in her own way as conscientious as Miss Mulberry herself.

But Madame was not just, and she was not truthful.

She had--either no sense at all, or--a quite different sense from ours of honour and uprightness.


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