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THE BRACELETS;
OR,
AMIABILITY AND INDUSTRY REWARDED.
BY
MARIA EDGEWORTH,
AUTHOR OF "POPULAR TALES," "MORAL TALES," ETC. ETC.
With Illustrations from Original Designs.
1850.
THE BRACELETS.
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In a beautiful and retired part of England lived Mrs. Villars, a
lady whose accurate understanding, benevolent heart, and steady
temper, peculiarly fitted her for the most difficult, as well as most
important of all occupations--the education of youth. This task she had
undertaken; and twenty young persons were put under her care, with the
perfect confidence of their parents. No young people could be happier;
they were good and gay, emulous, but not envious of each other; for Mrs.
Villars was impartially just. Her praise they felt to be the reward of
merit, and her blame they knew to be the necessary consequence of ill
conduct; to the one, therefore, they patiently submitted, and in the
other consciously rejoiced.
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