I undertook to instruct a national, not a ragged school;' and then Miss Boulder shook out her fine watered silk and said, 'It positively is improper to place ladies in contact with such squalid objects.'" "Ladies!" cried Ethel.

"A stationer's daughter and a banker's clerk's! Why do they come to teach at school at all ?" "Because our example makes it genteel," said Flora.
"I hope you did something more in hopes of making it genteel." "I caught one of your ragged regiment with her frock gaping behind, and pinned it up.

Such rags as there were under it! Oh, Ethel!" "Which was it ?" "That merry Irish-looking child.

I don't know her name." "Oh! it is a real charming Irish name, Una M'Carthy.

I am so glad you did it, Flora.