We are schoolmistresses, my dear Grey, and I know we are very formal and stiff; but though we have never been married ladies to have little children of our own, I am sure we have grown to love those placed in our care, so that often and often, when some pupil has been taken away to go to those far-off burning lands, it has been to us like losing a child."
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
I say, Miss Stuart, what awful old women your schoolmistresses must have been!"
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
But surely some of you have become schoolmistresses with good salaries?
"Look Back on Happiness"
Knut Hamsun