Ursula by the Author of 'amy Herbert' Author:Elizabeth Missing Sewell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1858 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. It would be useless to attempt a description of all that happened when we first went to live at Dene, and I have put into the account of that morning's walk over the grounds nearly all there is to say about the place, and added some things which fitly ought to have come in further on. But I write just as the thoughts enter my head, and should not be able to get on at all, where there is so much to say, if I were to take too much time to consider. We settled ourselves into our little house, -- Roger and I, -- and Sarah came as it had been agreed, and two days afterwards Roger took me over to Compton to the clergyman there, and arranged that I was to go to the village school. Sarah had a sister, about twelve years old, who went, and she was to take care of me. I know some people thought it strange that I should be sent to mix with everybody's children, and declared that my father and mother would never have allowed it if they had been living. But William and Roger both knew what my parents would have wished better than the world did, and Roger has often told me that the things he heard about the schools in Hove made him very unwilling to place me at one. He wanted me, he said, to grow up useful, and to know my place in the world, and from what he couldsee of the girls who had gone to those boarding- schools, it was just what they had never been taught. They were always trying to get out of their place. It took a good many years, and a good deal of experience too, to enable me to understand entirely all that Roger meant by that. As for my own wish, I was so glad to escape being sent away fr...« less