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The
master
frowned
,
and
this
completed
the
disaster
.
Tom
struggled
awhile
and
then
retired
,
utterly
defeated
.
There
was
a
weak
attempt
at
applause
,
but
it
died
early
.
"
The
Boy
Stood
on
the
Burning
Deck
"
followed
;
also
"
The
Assyrian
Came
Down
,
"
and
other
declamatory
gems
.
Then
there
were
reading
exercises
,
and
a
spelling
fight
.
The
meagre
Latin
class
recited
with
honor
.
The
prime
feature
of
the
evening
was
in
order
,
now
--
original
"
compositions
"
by
the
young
ladies
.
Each
in
her
turn
stepped
forward
to
the
edge
of
the
platform
,
cleared
her
throat
,
held
up
her
manuscript
(
tied
with
dainty
ribbon
)
,
and
proceeded
to
read
,
with
labored
attention
to
"
expression
"
and
punctuation
.
The
themes
were
the
same
that
had
been
illuminated
upon
similar
occasions
by
their
mothers
before
them
,
their
grandmothers
,
and
doubtless
all
their
ancestors
in
the
female
line
clear
back
to
the
Crusades
.
"
Friendship
"
was
one
;
"
Memories
of
Other
Days
"
;
"
Religion
in
History
"
;
"
Dream
Land
"
;
"
The
Advantages
of
Culture
"
;
"
Forms
of
Political
Government
Compared
and
Contrasted
"
;
"
Melancholy
"
;
"
Filial
Love
"
;
"
Heart
Longings
,
"
etc.
,
etc.
.
A
prevalent
feature
in
these
compositions
was
a
nursed
and
petted
melancholy
;
another
was
a
wasteful
and
opulent
gush
of
"
fine
language
"
;
another
was
a
tendency
to
lug
in
by
the
ears
particularly
prized
words
and
phrases
until
they
were
worn
entirely
out
;
and
a
peculiarity
that
conspicuously
marked
and
marred
them
was
the
inveterate
and
intolerable
sermon
that
wagged
its
crippled
tail
at
the
end
of
each
and
every
one
of
them
.
No
matter
what
the
subject
might
be
,
a
brain-racking
effort
was
made
to
squirm
it
into
some
aspect
or
other
that
the
moral
and
religious
mind
could
contemplate
with
edification
.
The
glaring
insincerity
of
these
sermons
was
not
sufficient
to
compass
the
banishment
of
the
fashion
from
the
schools
,
and
it
is
not
sufficient
to-day
;
it
never
will
be
sufficient
while
the
world
stands
,
perhaps
.
There
is
no
school
in
all
our
land
where
the
young
ladies
do
not
feel
obliged
to
close
their
compositions
with
a
sermon
;
and
you
will
find
that
the
sermon
of
the
most
frivolous
and
the
least
religious
girl
in
the
school
is
always
the
longest
and
the
most
relentlessly
pious
.
But
enough
of
this
.
Homely
truth
is
unpalatable
.
Let
us
return
to
the
"
Examination
.
"
The
first
composition
that
was
read
was
one
entitled
"
Is
this
,
then
,
Life
?
"
Perhaps
the
reader
can
endure
an
extract
from
it
:
"
In
the
common
walks
of
life
,
with
what
delightful
emotions
does
the
youthful
mind
look
forward
to
some
anticipated
scene
of
festivity
!
Imagination
is
busy
sketching
rose-tinted
pictures
of
joy
.
In
fancy
,
the
voluptuous
votary
of
fashion
sees
herself
amid
the
festive
throng
,
'
the
observed
of
all
observers
.
'
Her
graceful
form
,
arrayed
in
snowy
robes
,
is
whirling
through
the
mazes
of
the
joyous
dance
;
her
eye
is
brightest
,
her
step
is
lightest
in
the
gay
assembly
.
"
In
such
delicious
fancies
time
quickly
glides
by
,
and
the
welcome
hour
arrives
for
her
entrance
into
the
Elysian
world
,
of
which
she
has
had
such
bright
dreams
.
How
fairy-like
does
everything
appear
to
her
enchanted
vision
!
Each
new
scene
is
more
charming
than
the
last
.
But
after
a
while
she
finds
that
beneath
this
goodly
exterior
,
all
is
vanity
,
the
flattery
which
once
charmed
her
soul
,
now
grates
harshly
upon
her
ear
;
the
ball-room
has
lost
its
charms
;
and
with
wasted
health
and
imbittered
heart
,
she
turns
away
with
the
conviction
that
earthly
pleasures
can
not
satisfy
the
longings
of
the
soul
!
"
And
so
forth
and
so
on
.
There
was
a
buzz
of
gratification
from
time
to
time
during
the
reading
,
accompanied
by
whispered
ejaculations
of
"
How
sweet
!
"
"
How
eloquent
!
"
"
So
true
!
"
etc.
,
and
after
the
thing
had
closed
with
a
peculiarly
afflicting
sermon
the
applause
was
enthusiastic
.
Then
arose
a
slim
,
melancholy
girl
,
whose
face
had
the
"
interesting
"
paleness
that
comes
of
pills
and
indigestion
,
and
read
a
"
poem
.
"
Two
stanzas
of
it
will
do
:
"
A
Missouri
Maiden
's
Farewell
to
Alabama
