FAIRY PALACE. 33

“ T declare it’s quite shocking. to be
obliged to sit on the same form with a
charity girl, without stockings! I'll
tell my mamma, that I will. The
board over the door says a school for
young ladies: I hope, ma'am, (to Mrs.
Haywood) you don’t cail that a young
lady, or any one here besides ourselves;
except, indeed, Miss Rosa.”

* Young ladies are those who behave
as such,” cried Mrs. Haywood: and she
would probably have remonstrated with
some warmth upon the impropriety and
general unfeclingness of their conduct,
had she not been restrained by consi-
derations, which rendered it,*in her
opinion, imprudent; for she was well
aware, if she treated them with the

severity