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said the Major , which made them all laugh . They were full of hope . The Major and his daughter would go themselves the next day , and a father 's claim could not be refused even though not enforced according to Lady Arabella 's desire . Their coach -- for so Sir Amyas insisted on their going -- was at the door at the earliest possible moment that a school for young ladies could be supposed to be astir ; long before Mr. Belamour was up , for he retained his old habits so much that it was only on great occasions the he rose before noon ; and while Eugene , under the care of Jumbo and Grey , was going off in great felicity to see the morning parade in St. James 's Park . One of the expedients of well-born Huguenot refugees had been tuition , and Madame d'Elmar had made here boarding-school so popular and fashionable that a second generation still maintained its fame , and damsels of the highest rank were sent there to learn French , to play the spinnet , to embroider , to dance , and to get into a carriage with grace . It was only countrified misses , bred by old-fashioned scholars , who attempted to go any farther , such as that _ lusus naturae _ , Miss Elizabeth Carter , who knew seven languages , or the Bishop of Oxford 's niece , Catherine Talbot , who even painted natural flowers and wrote meditations ! The education Aurelia Delavie had received over her Homer and Racine would be smiled at as quite superfluous .