"Do you like the teachers?"
"Well enough."
"Do you like the little black one, and the Madame -? -- I cannot
pronounce her name as you do."
"Miss Scatcherd is hasty -- you must take care not to offend her;
Madame Pierrot is not a bad sort of person."
"But Miss Temple is the best -- isn't she?"
"Miss Temple is very good and very clever; she is above the rest,
because she knows far more than they do."
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