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He's generally by no means fond of new acquaintances. You must be used to snakes. Perhaps you've kept one? You're accustomed of old to their ways and manners?" "No, indeed," Elma cried, laughing in spite of herself, a clear little laugh of feminine triumph; for she had made a conquest, she saw, of Sardanapalus; "I never so much as touched one in all my life before.
"And my money is gone?" said Kitty. "So it seems that is, unless we can find Elma. It is all very dreadful, very horrible. I suppose the plain English of the matter is this" here Carrie gulped something down in her throat "that she she stole your money and has run away with it." "Carrie, you cannot think so!" "It is what I have to think," answered Carrie.
The dreadful blow had fallen; but the acute misery which was immediately to follow was not at present awakened within her. "Come, Elma," said Mrs. Steward. She turned to leave the room. Just as she reached the door she looked back at Miss Sherrard. "After you have exposed Elma, and ruined her character for life, you will doubtless expel her?" she said. "I hope not I think not."
Tears in Geoffrey's eyes! Madame stared in amaze, then broke into a sudden excited laugh. "Bravo, Elma! Bravo, Geoffrey! Congratulations, my dears. Thank heaven you have a mother who knows when she is well beaten!" She rose from her seat and crossed the room to where the girl sat. "Bravo, little Elma! I like to see a good fighting spirit.
"Well, it doesn't matter to us, papa," Elma answered maliciously; "for, as far as we're concerned, you know; you've often said that nothing on earth would ever induce you to give your consent." The Gentleman of Good Position in the county gazed at his daughter aghast with horror. "My dear child," he said, with positive alarm, "your remarks are nothing short of Revolutionary.
"You would not like him to take you from the school now," said Elma, "just when you have such a good chance of the literature scholarship?" "I should think not; it would be a dreadful blow. But he would be oh, I cannot tell you how shocked he would be!" "And he would be more shocked, would he not, if he heard that you had taken Kitty's part, and had signed the petition against Miss Sherrard?"
Lewis called from her bedroom after them: "Where are you two going?" she said. "Am I to be left alone in the house?" "No, Maggie is in the kitchen," called out Carrie. "Oh, I am sick of being by myself, and I want my supper." "I must go out to choose the crab, mother," said Elma. "Oh, the crab," replied Mrs. Lewis in a mollified tone.
"Of course, I never thought of that. I declare Elma, you are clever. I will mention what you say to Jessie, and tell her that she must go against the petition." Elma felt that she had won her point. There would be at least four girls against Gwin's motion, and probably others would follow their example.
Geoffrey Greville had driven down to see Elma the morning after her departure, and had spent a considerable time in her society! Suddenly Cornelia realised that her anxiety could brook no delay, and that it would be impossible to spend another night without discovering how the Moss Rose had fared during her absence.
But there, the ways of the world are really inscrutable! What reconciles me to life, every day I grow older, is that it's so amusing so intensely amusing! You never know what's going to turn up next; and what you least expect is what most often happens." Elma, however, received his news with a very grave face.
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