olite, as it is possible to describe.

Miss Jenny's joy was inexpressible, that she had caused this happy
change; nor less was the joy of her companions, who now began to
taste pleasures, from which their animosity to each other had hitherto
debarred them. They all sat looking pleased on their companions; their
faces borrowed beauty from the calmness and goodness of their minds;
and all those ugly frowns, and all that ill-natured sourness, which when
they were angry and cross were but too plain in their faces, were now
entirely fled; jessamine and honeysuckles surrounded their seats, and
played round their heads, of which they gathered nosegays to present
each other with. They now enjoyed all the pleasure and happiness that
attend those who are innocent and good.

Miss Jenny, with her heart overflowing with joy at this happy change,
said, 'Now, my dear companions, that you may be convinced what I have
said and done was not occasioned by any desire of proving myself wiser
than you, as Miss Sukey hinted while she was yet in her anger, I will,
if you please, relate to you the history of my past life; by which you
will see in what manner I came by this way of thinking; and as you will
perceive it was chiefly owing to the instructions of a kind mamma, you
may all likewise reap the same advantage under good Mrs. Teachum, if
you will obey her commands, and attend to her precepts. And after I have
given you the particulars of my life, I must beg that every one of you
will, some day or other, when you have reflected upon it, declare all
that you can remember of your own; for, should you not be able to relate
anything worth remembering as an example, yet there is nothing more
likely to amend the future part of anyone's life, than the recollecting
and confessing the faults of the past.'

All our little company highly approved of Miss Jenny's proposal, and
promised, in their turns, to relate their own lives; and Miss Polly
Suckling cried out, 'Yes indeed, Miss Jenny, I'll tell all when it comes
to my turn; so pray begin, for I long to hear what you did, when you was
no bigger than I am now.' Miss Jenny then kissed little Polly, and said
she would instantly begin.

But as in the reading of any one's story, it is an additional pleasure
to have some acquaintance with their persons; and as I delight in giving
my little readers every pleasure that is in my power; I shall endeavour,
as justly as I can, by description, to set before th