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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...having charge of young ladies, by sympathy with them, and by love of literary pursuits, and they were thus engaged for so long a period, that many children of those whom they had taught, were placed in their care. Other duties forbade Mrs. Fall any share in teaching, except in the art of reading aloud, in which she excelled, and which was then considered important. But their pupils owed much.to her lofty tone of mind, her example of rare courage and self.command, her taste for the best authors, as well as her regard for the domestic virtues. She remarked to a young heiress from South Garclina, now before you leave school, you must cut and make a dress. Perceiving a shade of reluctance, she said kindly, my dear, there is no necessity now for your doing it, but you do not know what reverses you may meet. She made the dress and wore it. Many years after, she said to a circle of ladies in Mrs. Tubman's parlor in Augusta, before the war, our income was fifteen thousand dollars, andwe spent it. Since my husband's death we have-had fifteen hundred, and have lived on it. But whatever I am as a practical woman, I owe (laying her hand on Mrs. Fall's) to my mother here. In all Mr. Fall's labors, in the trials that must beset every path, she was his strength and comforter, her fortitude never failing. In instructing those for whose welfare they felt such anxiety, they did not claim to be infallible, or uniformly successful, but many noble women have borne testimony to their fidelity. We were never influenced to adopt the tenets of any one church, but were required to study the Bible, to memorize portions of it; were taught that we must continue the education of which only the...