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The refreshing meal, the brilliant fire, the presence and kindness of her beloved instructress, or, perhaps, more than all these, something in her own unique mind, had roused her powers within her.

Certainly, the French apparently take a more benign view of the older woman, often seen as a kindly instructress in the ways of love,a rite of passage for the awkward younger man.

“Stand easy!” barked the instructress, a little more genially.

Sarella had not, at all events consciously, to herself, told her instructress much about her young cousin.

Her aunt, who had been her earliest instructress, was a zealous Protestant; and her grandfather, Agrippa d'Aubign�, as a soldier, a historian, and a satirical poet, was one of the first men of his day.