George's house, where she was contentedly warbling at a
music lesson with Madame Strumpff.
The hour was soon over; and when Fan had taken a
music lesson in another room, while Polly looked on, it was time for recess.
The superintendent of Lowood (for such was this lady) having taken her seat before a pair of globes placed on one of the tables, summoned the first class round her, and commenced giving a lesson on geography; the lower classes were called by the teachers: repetitions in history, grammar, &c., went on for an hour; writing and arithmetic succeeded, and
music lessons were given by Miss Temple to some of the elder girls.
I even avoided the chance encounters of the garden, leaving my lodging only when I knew that she had gone to her
music lessons, and returning after nightfall.
From the first La Fosseuse became almost a companion to the young heiress; she was taught to read and write, and her future mistress sometimes amused herself by giving her
music lessons. She was treated sometimes as a lady's companion, sometimes as a waiting-maid, and in this way they made an incomplete being of her.
To the influence of his chief he owed a half-scholarship for each of his two sons in the College Henri IV.; while his daughter was being educated gratis at a boarding school where his wife gave
music lessons and he himself a course of history and one of geography in the evenings.
Beth had her troubles as well as the others, and not being an angel but a very human little girl, she often `wept a little weep' as Jo said, because she couldn't take
music lessons and have a fine piano.
Nellie Higgins next door has begun
music lessons, and her practising drives me nearly wild.
So, Delia said she must give
music lessons to keep the chafing dish bubbling.
She had promised to pay for a quarter's
music lessons for Diana, but now she is determined to do nothing at all for such a tomboy.
There was a slight, a very slight hope, that Rebecca might be allowed a few
music lessons from Miss Morton, who played the church cabinet organ, but this depended entirely upon whether Mrs.
She did this by giving
music lessons to tradesmen's daughters, giving four and sometimes five lessons a day of an hour each, and earning in this way some sixty rubles (6 pounds) a month.