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This caused great amusement , and was accompanied by much laughter , on the part of the ladies and their attendants . Several of her pupils , however , were young boys and girls , and the teaching here was of a more serious kind . The lessons to the boys were given the first thing in the morning , and the pupils were brought to her house by attendants . At eleven o'clock she taught the girls , and returned at one , and had two hours more teaching in the afternoon . She could have obtained more pupils , had she wished to ; but the pay she received , added to her income , enabled her to live very comfortably , and to save up money . She had a Negro servant , who was very fond of the boy , and she could leave him in her charge with perfect confidence , while she was teaching . In the latter part of 1884 , she ventured to hope that some news might yet come to her , for a British expedition had started for the relief of General Gordon , who had gone up early in the year to Khartoum ; where it was hoped that the influence he had gained among the natives , at the time he was in command of the Egyptian forces in the Soudan , would enable him to make head against the insurrection .