The girls of the aristocratic group of pupils belonged to the most devoted royalist families in Paris.
Ginevra, much the ablest of Servin's pupils, was an object of intense jealousy.
Even in this temple of good intentions, an exceptionally sharp boy exceptionally determined to learn, could learn something, and, having learned it, could impart it much better than the teachers; as being more knowing than they, and not at the disadvantage in which they stood towards the shrewder pupils.
But, even among school-buildings, school-teachers, and school- pupils, all according to pattern and all engendered in the light of the latest Gospel according to Monotony, the older pattern into which so many fortunes have been shaped for good and evil, comes out.
There were rooms unoccupied, even when the limit assigned to the number of
pupils had been reached.
Although schoolmistresses' letters are to be trusted no more nor less than churchyard epitaphs; yet, as it sometimes happens that a person departs this life who is really deserving of all the praises the stone cutter carves over his bones; who IS a good Christian, a good parent, child, wife, or husband; who actually DOES leave a disconsolate family to mourn his loss; so in academies of the male and female sex it occurs every now and then that the
pupil is fully worthy of the praises bestowed by the disinterested instructor.
After this she looked in upon me once or twice, during the absence of my
pupils, to enlighten me concerning my duties towards them.
Not a day passed, in that dangerous intimacy of teacher and
pupil, in which my hand was not close to Miss Fairlie's; my cheek, as we bent together over her sketch-book, almost touching hers.
You have referred to the letters written by my
pupil," she resumed, addressing Noel Vanstone as soon as she felt sure of herself again.
Several
pupils had a few yellow tickets, but none had enough -- he had been around among the star
pupils inquiring.
Brocklehurst, and immediately after--"It is the new
pupil, I perceive.
I had thought I should have been allowed at least 3 days to prepare; but it is a bad omen to commence any career by hesitation, so I just stepped to the professor's desk near which we stood, and faced the circle of my
pupils.
