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Elsie’s Kith and Kin

CHAPTER XVII
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Now we will attend to the lessons." When the recitations were finished, "Papa," she said, with an affectionate, admiring look up into his face, "I think you are a _very_ nice teacher: you make every thing so clear and plain, and so interesting.

I'm so glad you're the gentleman who is to have charge of me," she added with a happy laugh.
"So am I," he said, caressing her.

"I am very glad, very thankful, to be able to take charge of all my own children; and whatever I may lack in experience and ability as a teacher, I hope to make up in the deep interest I shall always feel in the welfare and progress of my pupils." She then told him of Evelyn's wish, concluding With, "Won't you, dear papa?
I'd like it so much, and Eva is such a good girl you wouldn't have a bit of trouble managing her.

She's just as different from me as possible." "Quite a recommendation; and if I were as sure of proving a competent teacher, I should not hesitate to grant your request.

But it is a new business to me, and perhaps it would not be wise for me to undertake the tuition of more than my own three at present.


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