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Davison, and wondered if by any possibility the time would come when poor Mercy Curtis could go to school perhaps come to this very Briarwood Hall. The long ride on the train to Lake Osago was likewise repeated in Ruth's mind; then the trip by boat to Portageton.
"I'm going to make your investment in my schooling at Briarwood pay you the biggest dividend of anything you ever speculated in you see." "I'm sure I hope so, Niece Ruth," he grumbled. "I don't much expect it, though. They teach you too many folderols up there. What's this now?" he asked, pointing his stubbed forefinger to the little gold and black enamel pin she wore on her blouse.
There was much laughter and confusion; but the arriving Infants were lined up two by two between the long rows of Briarwood girls and were forced to march toward the Hall by this narrow path. "Come! we are Infants, too," exclaimed Ruth, pulling Helen by the sleeve. "We will lead the march."
She had no idea that the hazing party would really hurt them; they would have for their principal object the frightening of the new-comers to Briarwood Hall; and, secondarily, they would try to make Ruth and Helen appear just as ridiculous as possible. Ruth was sorry in a moment that she had breathed a syllable aloud; for she was not allowed to awaken Helen.
"You used to create a famine at old Briarwood Hall, I remember. But I would not brag about it, Heavy." "Crammed my brain, I mean," wailed the plump girl. "Can't you let me forget my avoirdupois at all?" "It is like the poor," laughed Ruth. "It is always with us, Jennie. We cannot look at you and visualize your skeleton. You are too well upholstered."
Tellingham I fear that Briarwood Hall could not exist. However, the doctor is a perfectly harmless person." Grace Tellingham was a rather strong-minded lady and that the doctor would prove to be both mild and "hen-pecked." The car sped along the beautifully shaded road leading into Cheslow; but there was still ample time for the travelers to catch the train.
"What is it?" "Maybe Tom will be there. Good old Tom! Just think I haven't seen him since we left home. Won't it be just scrumptious to see old Tom again?" And Ruth Fielding really thought it would be. So on the morning following the feast-day there were two wagonettes waiting at the entrance to the Briarwood grounds to take the girls two miles by road to a certain boathouse on Triton Lake.
"Do you know, Violet, I am very much afraid that this marriage is rather the result of calculation than of genuine affection?" said Mrs. Scobel solemnly. "Oh, no doubt it will be a grand thing to unite Ashbourne and Briarwood, but Roderick Vawdrey is too honourable to marry a girl he could not love.
Most of the older girls were down by the water. Indeed, some of the seniors were trying to interest the bigger girls in rowing. Briarwood owned a small lake, and they might have canoes and racing shells upon it, if the girls as a whole would become interested. But many of the big girls did not even know how to row. There was one big punt into which almost a dozen of them crowded.
But she was not afraid of a little hard work, her muscles were supple, and she had rowed one season in the first eight at Briarwood Hall, and so considered herself something of an oarswoman. The miller, by stretching to see over his shoulder, got the boat pointed in the right direction. "Pull, now!" he commanded, and set a long, forceful stroke for the girl to match.
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