I made a rush at the visitors as they entered, and sometimes I was asked if I were lady principal, and sometimes if I were the matron.

This morning Miss Lyman's voice was gone.

She must have seen five hundred people yesterday.
"Among others there was one Miss Mitchell, and, of course, that anxious mother put that girl under my special care, and she is very bright.

Then there were two who were sent with letters to me, and several others whose mothers took to me because they were frightened by Miss Lyman's _style_.
"One lady, who seemed to be a bright woman, got me by the button and held me a long time--she wanted this, that, and the other impracticable thing for the girl, and told me how honest her daughter was; then with a flood of tears she said, 'But she is not a Christian.

I know I put her into good hands when I put her here.' (Then I was strongly tempted to avow my Unitarianism.) Miss W., who was standing by, said, 'Miss Lyman will be an excellent spiritual adviser,' and we both looked very serious; when the mother wiped her weeping eyes and said, 'And, Miss Mitchell, will you ask Miss Lyman to insist that my daughter shall curl her hair?
She looks very graceful when her hair is curled, and I want it insisted upon,' I made a note of it with my pencil, and as I happened to glance at Miss W.the corners of her mouth were twitching, upon which I broke down and laughed.