Note 812 — Chapter II
Reading edition
Two parents discuss the school in a dialogue:
Où allez vous?Whither are you going?
Je m'en vais voir ma fille. I am going to see my daughter.
En quel lieu? In what place?
A Maribone. At Maribone.
Que fait elle là? What doth she do there?
Comment, ne sçavez vous pas que je l'ay mise en pension? What, do you not know that I have put her at a Boording school?
Chez qui? With whom?
Chez un nommé Mons. de la Mare qui tient escole Françoise. At one Mons. de la Mare that keeps a French school.
Vrayement, je n'en sçavois rien. Truly, I did not know it.
Qu'apprend elle là? What does she learn there?
Elle apprend à écrire, à lire, à parler françois, à chanter, à danser, à jouer de la guitare, and the spinette. She learns to write, to read, to speak French, to sing, to dance, to play on the guitar, et de l'épinette.