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It occurred to her that if she started immediately for school she might call for Bessie Challoner, and tell her what had occurred. Bessie's sympathy would be very sweet, and Alice determined to secure it if possible. Accordingly she left the house, and at about a quarter to nine found herself at Bessie's house. Bessie was standing on the steps drawing on her gloves.
"My sister wants me," she said, in explanation to her friends. "Tiresome, isn't it? for there is no guessing when she will let me come back." Tom led his captive away, but he was dreadfully frightened at the success of his own manoeuvre. "Where is Bessie?" asked Elsie, impatiently, as they walked down the ball-room. "This way," faltered Tom; "we shall find her in a moment."
Some few belongings of mine were there, and I entertained a friendly sort of feeling for my good-hearted but slatternly landlady, and for poor, overworked Bessie, with her broad, generally smutty face, and lingering remains of a Dorset accent.
Every now and then I touched it caressingly, as if trying to read it with my finger-tips, and wondered how long it would be before cousin Bessie would move her chair away from the table, that I might retire and gratify myself with its contents. So much for human foresight and wisdom!
"Whom but you, Bessie McPherson, whom I believe I have loved ever since that Christmas I spent at Stoneleigh two years ago. Do you remember the knot of plaid ribbon you wore that night and which I won at play?
"Oh, papa," said Bessie again, "you know you sent me what I asked you for this morning in a box of Huyler's, all beautifully done up, and oh! I know you, papa my name written on the parcel by some one else, so I wouldn't know. But just as if I wouldn't know; it could not be any one but you, because no one else knew that I wanted it." "Upon my word, this is very embarrassing," said Mr. Bradford.
"You can't lose your way now," he said. "Keep to the trail and go straight ahead." "Good-bye, Jack," said Bessie. "You're just as true and brave as any of the knights you ever read about, and if you keep on like this you'll be a great man when you grow up as great as your father. Good-bye!" "Good-bye and thank you ever so much," called Zara.
The children drew long breaths. "Didn't anybody ever get the mill again?" asked Bessie. "No, never. There they both are at the bottom, grinding away as hard as they can; and that's the reason why the sea is so salt!" "Is it salt?" asked little Rosy, who never had seen the sea. "Why, Rosy, of course. Didn't you ever eat codfish?
"And I am older now, and can understand," said Bessie; "but then, it is Susie that is right hand, and does everything." "There's plenty in your own line, Bessie plenty of little kindly services that are very cheering; and above all " "What?" "Attending to your Mamma's troubles will drive away your own grievances.
Miss Mohun and Miss Merrifield encountered Miss Prescott and Agatha among a perfect herd of cycles, making Bessie laugh over the recollections of the horror caused at Stokesley by the arrival of Arthurine Arthuret on a tricycle twelve years previously.
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