's, but that now both were promised to Miss C. I was
partly disappointed by this answer, and partly gratified; indeed, I
derived quite an impulse of encouragement from the warm assurance that if
I had but applied a little sooner they would certainly have sent me their
daughter. I own I had misgivings that nobody would be willing to send a
child for education to Haworth. These misgivings are partly done away
with. I have written also to Mrs. B., and have enclosed the diploma
which M. Heger gave me before I left Brussels. I have not yet received
her answer, but I wait for it with some anxiety. I do not expect that
she will send me any of her children, but if she would, I dare say she
could recommend me other pupils. Unfortunately, she knows us only very
slightly. As soon as I can get an assurance of only _one_ pupil, I will
have cards of terms printed, and will commence the repairs necessary in
the house. I wish all that to be done before winter. I think of fixing
the board and English education at 25_l_. per annum."
Again, at a later date, July 24th, in the same year, she writes:--
"I am driving on with my small matter as well as I can. I have written
to all the friends on whom I have the slightest claim, and to some on
whom I have no claim; Mrs. B., for example. On her, also, I have
actually made bold to call.
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