She had
had a great quantity of Blair's "Lectures on Belles-Lettres" to read;
and she could not answer some of the questions upon it; Charlotte
Bronte had a bad mark. Miss Wooler was sorry, and regretted that she
had over-tasked so willing a pupil. Charlotte cried bitterly. But her
school-fellows were more than sorry--they were indignant. They
declared that the infliction of ever so slight a punishment on
Charlotte Bronte was unjust--for who had tried to do her duty like
her?--and testified their feeling in a variety of ways, until Miss
Wooler, who was in reality only too willing to pass over her good
pupil's first fault, withdrew the bad mark. . . .
After her return home she employed herself in teaching her sisters over
whom she had had superior advantages. She writes thus, July 21, 1832,
of her course of life at the parsonage:
"An account of one day is an account of all. In the morning, from nine
o'clock till half-past twelve, I instruct my sisters, and draw; then we
walk till dinner-time. After dinner I sew till tea-time, and after tea
I either write, read, or do a little fancywork, or draw, as I please.
Thus, in one delightful though somewhat monotonous course, my life is
passed.
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