Excerpt from The Boarding School, or Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils: Consisting of Information, Instruction and Advice, Calculated to Improve the Manners and Form the Character of Young Ladies

She had two daughters, lovely and promis ing as ever parent could boast.

Mrs. Williams' circumstances were easy. She possessed a little patrimony, to which she retired, after her husband's decease but a desire of preserving this for her children, and a wish to promote their advantage and enlarge their society, induced her to open a Boarding School.

As she had an eye, no less to the social pleasure, than to the pecuniary profit of the undertaking, she admitted only seven, at a time, to the privilege Of her tuition.

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