The proposal is kind, and in a great selfish city like Brussels, and a great selfish school, containing nearly ninety pupils (boarders and day pupils included), implies a degree of interest which demands gratitude in return.

I am inclined to accept it.

What think you?
I don't deny I sometimes wish to be in England, or that I have brief attacks of home sickness; but, on the whole, I have borne a very valiant heart so far; and I have been happy in Brussels, because I have always been fully occupied with the employments that I like.
Emily is making rapid progress in French, German, music, and drawing.
Monsieur and Madame Heger begin to recognise the valuable parts of her character, under her singularities.
"If the national character of the Belgians is to be measured by the character of most of the girls is this school, it in a character singularly cold, selfish, animal, and inferior.

They are very mutinous and difficult for the teachers to manage; and their principles are rotten to the core.

We avoid them, which it is not difficult to do, as we have the brand of Protestantism and Anglicism upon us.