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Self-respecting young ladies do not talk about such things , and Honora was nothing if not self-respecting . `` SUTCLIFFE MANORS , October 15th . `` DEAREST AUNT MARY : As I wrote you , I continue to miss you and Uncle Tom dreadfully , -- and dear old Peter , too ; and Cathy and Bridget and Mary Ann . And I hate to get up at seven o'clock . And Miss Hood , who takes us out walking and teaches us composition , is such a ridiculously strict old maid -- you would laugh at her . And the Sundays are terrible . Miss Turner makes us read the Bible for a whole hour in the afternoon , and reads to us in the evening .