She is the most conservative person I ever met.

I think her a very good woman, a woman of great energy....

She is very kind to me, but had we lived in the colonial days of Massachusetts, and had she been a power, she would have burned me at the stake for heresy! "Yesterday the rush began.

Miss Lyman [the lady principal] had set the twenty teachers all around in different places, and I was put into the parlor to talk to 'anxious mothers.' "Miss Lyman had a hoarse cold, but she received about two hundred students, and had all their rooms assigned to them.
"While she had one anxious mamma, I took two or three, and kept them waiting until she could attend to them.

Several teachers were with me.