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of her own devising.
Her appearance at first borders on the grotesque, but is presently seen to be nearer the august.
She turns her pleasant face toward the audience, takes off her cap, and unrolls the manuscript from which she proposes to read.
Her eyes beam with intelligence and kindly feeling.
The spectators applaud her before she has opened her lips.
Her aspect has taken them captive at once.
Her essay, on some educational theme, is terse, direct, and full of good thought.
It is heard with close attention and with manifest approbation, and whenever, in the proceedings that follow, she rises to say her word, she is always greeted with a murmur of applause.
This lady is Miss Mary Ripley, a public school teacher of Buffalo city, wise in the instruction of the young and in the enlightenment of elders.
We all rejoice in her success, which is eminently that of character and intellect.
I feel myself drawn on to offer another picture, not of our congress, but of a scene which grew out of it.
The ladies of our association have been invited to visit a school for young girls, of which Miss Conway, one of our members, is the principal.
After witnessing some interesting exercises, we assemble in the large hall, where a novel entertainment has been provided for us. A band of
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