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"She whipped two female 'prentices to death, / And hid them in the coal-hole. For her mind / Shaped strictest plans of discipline, sage schemes, / Such as Lycurgus taught. " / Canning and Frere
The favourite dentist of the neighbourhood dwelt in a grand mansion at St. Norbert's, and thither were conducted Conrade and Francis, as victims to the symmetry of their mouths. Their mother accompanied them to supply the element of tenderness, Alison that of firmness; and, in fact, Lady Temple was in a state of much greater trepidation than either of her sons, who had been promised five shillings each as the reward of fortitude, and did nothing but discuss what they should buy with it.