The young ladies seem to forget that the new-comer must feel rather unpleasantly in the midst of a hundred persons to whom she is wholly a stranger, and with no one to speak to.

Two or three will stand together, and instead of deciding upon some plan by which the individual may be made to feel at ease, something like the following conversation takes place: "_Miss X._ How do you like the looks of Miss A., who entered school to-day?
"_Miss Y._ I don't think she is very pretty, but she looks as if she might be a good scholar.
"_Miss X._ She does not strike me very pleasantly.

Did you ever see such a face?
And her complexion is so dark, I should think she had always lived in the open air; and what a queer voice she has! "_Miss Y._ I wonder if she has a taste for Arithmetic?
"_Miss X._ She does not look as if she had much taste for any thing.

See how strangely she arranges her hair! "_Miss S._ Whether she has much taste or not, some one of us ought to go and get acquainted with her.

See how unpleasantly she feels! "_Miss X._ I don't want to get acquainted with her until I know whether I shall like her or not.
"Thus nothing is done to relieve her.