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"Thelma," said Sir Philip then, very gently and gravely, "would you like can you bear to read your father's last words to you? He wrote to you on his death-bed, and gave the letter to Valdemar " "Oh, let me see it!" she murmured half-sobbingly. "Father, dear father! I knew he would not leave me without a word!"
Phœbe raised her head the look in the dark eyes of the teacher filled her with a sudden reversion of feeling. How could she go on hating any one so beautiful! "Phœbe, I'm sorry I'm so sorry there has been any trouble the first day and that you have been the cause of it." "I ach, Miss Lee," the child blurted out half-sobbingly, "Mary, she tattled on me." "That was wrong, of course.
"You dare me to my worst?" She looked up at his dark cruel face, his glittering eyes, and shuddered as with icy cold, but the spirit in that delicate little body of hers was strong as steel, and tempered to the grandest issues. "I dare you to do your worst!" she said, half-sobbingly, half- closing her eyes in the nervous terror she could not altogether control.
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