Emma soon obtained a situation as teacher in a small village some twenty
miles from Rockford, where she remained for two years. During her
absence, her mother, to avoid being left alone, received as boarders two
or three young ladies who attended school in the village. Emma's success
as a teacher become so well known that she was at length offered a high
salary to accept of the position of assistant teacher in an academy in
the city of H., the same city where Miss Carlton resided. As the salary
offered was very liberal, she decided to accept of the position, and as
the situation was likely to prove a permanent one she was very anxious
that her mother should accompany her; and after some deliberation upon
the subject, Mrs. Ashton consented, thinking they would both be much
happier together than otherwise. Emma proved quite as successful in thus
her second situation as in the first; and owing to her position as
teacher she soon formed acquaintance with several families of cultivated
tastes and high respectability. She often received invitations to
parties; but her tastes were quiet, and she usually preferred spending
her evenings with her mother in the quiet of their own home, to mingling
in scenes of mirth and gaiety; and it was only upon a few occasions that
she attended parties, that her friends might not think her unsocial.
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