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Book, page 331 / 433 cross, if one made a mistake in the tenses: it's very well for you your governess is not cross--does she give you very hard exercises?--let me look at your exercise book, and I'll tell you whether it's the right one--I mean _that_ we used to have at Suxberry House." Miss Fanshaw snatched up a book, in which she saw a paper, which she took for a French exercise. "Come, show it me, and I'll correct the faults for you, before your governess sees it, and she'll be so surprised!" "Mad. de Rosier has seen it," said Matilda;--but Miss Fanshaw, in a romping manner, pulled the paper out of her hands. It was the translation of a part of "Les Conversations d'Emilie," which we formerly mentioned. "La!" said Miss Fanshaw, "we had no such book as this at Suxberry House." Matilda's translation she was surprised to find correct. "And do you write themes?" said she--"We always wrote themes once every week, at Suxberry House, which I used to hate of all things, for I never could find any thing to say--it made me hate writing, I know;--but that's all over now; thank goodness, I've done with themes, and French letters, and exercises, and translations, and all those plaguing things; and now I've left school for ever, I may do just as I please--that's the best of going to school; it's over some time or other, and there's an end of it; but you that have a governess and masters at home, you go on for ever and ever, and you have no holidays either; and you have no out-of-school hours; you are kept _hard at it_ from morning till night: now I should hate that of all things. At Suxberry House, when we had got our task done, and finished with the writing-master and the drawing-master, and when we had practised for the music-master, and _all that_, we might be as idle as we pleased, and do what we liked out of school-hours--you know that was very pleasant: I assure you, you'd like being at Suxberry House amazingly." Isabella and Matilda, to whom it did not appear the most delightful of all things to be idle, nor the most desirable thing in the world to have their education finished, and then to lay aside all thoughts of farther improvement, could not assent to Miss Fanshaw's concluding assertion.
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