[7]. She had her own little garden at Ramsgate.
[8]. Her brother had called at the school, immaculately dressed, and had behaved to the schoolmistress so charmingly that poor Sophy felt herself quite left out in the cold, and had doubtless responded with positive rudeness. What sort of visit was this from a beloved brother?
[9]. There is no other reference to the visit to Worthing.
[10]. From their earliest years the children were drilled in the virtue of economy. The references to the altering and letting-down of frocks, the calculation of pence for ribbon or frill, the careful computation of the length of time a pair of boots might be expected to last,—all these form instructive reading when one bears in mind the social position of the family and the large sums of money which the parents habitually gave away.
[11]. “Dec. 20th, 1859. Strange truth this: How already that hope has changed!”
[12]. This longing for rest was something deeper than the ordinary sentimentality of adolescence. She always said that by nature she was lazy, and the saying was not devoid of truth.
[13]. It was an interesting and typical stage in the development of women when a girl found it necessary to “go into hysterics” in order to convince her father of her right to an education.
[14]. See Mrs. Alec Tweedie’s interesting record of “The First College for Women.”
[15]. The reference is not to S. J.-B.’s own parents.
[16]. Life of Octavia Hill.