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MY SCHOOLMISTRESS OF THE UPPER FIRST.
 Thursday, 27th.  
My schoolmistress has kept her promise which she made, and came to-day just as I was on the point of going out with my mother to carry some linen1 to a poor woman recommended by the Gazette. It was a year since I had seen her in our house. We all made a great deal of her. She is just the same as ever, a little thing, with a green veil wound about her bonnet2, carelessly dressed, and with untidy hair, because she has not time to keep herself nice; but with a little less[13] color than last year, with some white hairs, and a constant cough. My mother said to her:—
 
“And your health, my dear mistress? You do not take sufficient care of yourself!”
 
“It does not matter,” the other replied, with her smile, at once cheerful and melancholy3.
 
“You speak too loud,” my mother added; “you exert yourself too much with your boys.”
 
That is true; her voice is always to be heard; I remember how it was when I went to school to her; she talked and talked all the time, so that the boys might not divert their attention, and she did not remain seated a moment. I felt quite sure that she would come, because she never forgets her pupils; she remembers their names for years; on the days of the monthly examination, she runs to ask the director what marks they have won; she waits for them at the entrance, and makes them show her their compositions, in order that she may see what progress they have made; and many still come from the gymnasium to see her, who already wear long trousers and a watch. To-day she had come back in a great state of excitement, from the picture-gallery, whither she had taken her boys, just as she had conducted them all to a museum every Thursd............
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