' Accept these trifling domestic
particulars as suggesting hints which may be useful to you in managing
Mrs. Wragge; and believe me, in anxious expectation of hearing from you
again,
"Devotedly yours,
"HORATIO WRAGGE."
III.
_From Norah to Magdalen_.
_[Forwarded, with the Two Letters that follow it, from the Post-office,
Birmingham.]_
"Westmoreland House, Kensington, July 1st.
"MY DEAREST MAGDALEN--When you write next (and pray write soon!) address
your letter to me at Miss Garth's. I have left my situation; and some
little time may elapse before I find another.
"Now it is all over I may acknowledge to you, my darling, that I was not
happy. I tried hard to win the affection of the two little girls I had
to teach; but they seemed, I am sure I can't tell why, to dislike me
from the first. Their mother I have no reason to complain of. But their
grandmother, who was really the ruling power in the house, made my life
very hard to me. My inexperience in teaching was a constant subject
of remark with her; and my difficulties with the children were always
visited on me as if they had been entirely of my own making. I tell you
this, so that you may not suppose I regret having left my situation.
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