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She squeezed the gloved hand hard now and answered mechanically, her eyes telling the feelings that were surging within her. "That is good. We left Frieda's parents well, too, and quite content after some excitement. You see, they had made plans for Frieda to come with an English friend of theirs, who was obliged only a few days before sailing-time to change her plans.
Our going to school was the fulfilment of my father's best promises to us, and Frieda's share in it was to fashion and fit the calico frocks in which the baby sister and I made our first appearance in a public schoolroom. I remember to this day the gray pattern of the calico, so affectionately did I regard it as it hung upon the wall my consecration robe awaiting the beatific day.
I don't want to start out with Goethe and Schiller. I asked the German minister, and he gave a list of religious books, but that isn't what we want, either." Frieda's eyes shone. "Please let me make you a list," she said eagerly. "And I have two or three books in my trunk which I would gladly give, O, gladly." Algernon's pleasure was as great as her own. "That would be simply bully!
This shyness had combined with the little aloofness, which every one felt in Catherine, to shut Frieda's heart. But this morning the barriers were down. Catherine, instead of being perfect, exquisite, was nothing short of hideous. The agent had proved that she could look absurd. Here she was shown mortal to the point of needing help from Frieda.
I know all Frieda's opinions. If they are favorable, she gives them out plainly, and if they aren't she keeps still, so it's no work to guess at them. I wish I could do like she does!" she added, with a sudden earnest tone in her voice. "I'll blue-pencil all your reportings, if you use such grammar as 'like she does!" said Alice sternly.
Frieda's upstairs cleaning the bathroom, so take a little squint at the roast now and then, will you? See that it doesn't burn, and that there's plenty of gravy. Oh, and Dawn tell the milkman we want an extra half-pint of cream to-day. The tickets are on the kitchen shelf, back of the clock. I'll be back in an hour." "Mhmph," I reply. Sis shuts the door, but opens it again almost immediately.
"None of that!" shouted the other girl. "This dress makes me sick, when I look at yours!" Marjorie perceived the jealousy in Frieda's eyes, and hastened to change the subject. "Will you go out in my canoe with me now?" "Nope! Not in this rig!" "But Frieda " "If you like it so much," she interrupted, "you wear it and give me yours!"
But he did not find her conversation very satisfactory, for her mind seemed far away, and he was relieved to have Lily and Dick join them. Marjorie had enjoyed her evening, but now she was eager to be alone with Lily, to discuss, in private, what the fortune teller had said about Frieda's whereabouts.
I mean about Frieda's being lost." "Yes, I thought it was funny, too, though, of course, I didn't expect her to throw up her job and go on an aimless sort of journey to find her. Miss Phillips has too much good sense for anything wild like that." "She has done the wisest thing possible by using that private detective," continued Marjorie; "but somehow, Lil, I don't think she'll ever find her.
"Nothing but rehearsals!" yawned Ruth. "Don't you wish the operetta were over?" "Yes and no," replied Marjorie, thinking of Frieda's promise. "I don't mind rehearsing much. But, then, I haven't a big part." "No; neither you nor I can sing wonderfully, can we? But didn't it make you feel the least bit badly, Marj, after being heroine last year, to have to take a back seat this time?"
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