ABSTRACT

The day before Mrs Mason was to leave her pupils, she took a hand of each, and pressing them tenderly in her own, tears started into her eyes - I tremble for you, my dear girls, 1[for] you must 2[now] practise by yourselves some of the virtues 3[which] I have been endeavouring to inculcate: and I shall anxiously wait for the summer, to see what progress you have made 4[by yourselves].