"It is as well to have it legible, you know." "Take it," said the New York girl.

"There 's tew York shill'ns in it when I hand it to you." "Your whole quarter's allowance, I bullieve,--ain't it ?" said the Boston girl.
"Elegant manners, correct deportment, and propriety of language will be strictly attended to in this institution.

The most correct standards of pronunciation will be inculcated by precept and example.

It will be the special aim of the teachers to educate their pupils out of all provincialisms, so that they may be recognized as well-bred English scholars wherever the language is spoken in its purity."-- Extract from the Prospectus of Madam Delacoste's Boarding-school.
Myrtle Hazard was a puzzle to all the girls.

Striking, they all agreed, but then the criticisms began.