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Nevertheless, she would pay Leuchy out Leuchy, who had now no one to protect her, as even the pious Meg Drummond was not allowed to make special friends with her.
You don't know what awful mischief you 'll do. 'I have to think of my soul, replied Meg; 'but go your ways and enjoy yourself. No, thank you, I don't want to go to your house this day week. Perhaps I also can come round wee Leuchy. There's no saying what you 'll see and what you 'll hear on Monday morning! 'Meg, you make me so wretched. Are you really going to tell her our silly little trick?
I wanted to be friends with Leuchy, but she would not have it; so then the soul of mischief got into me, and I ran home to The Garden and fetched the cat, and put her into Leuchy's bed. Oh! I know it was wrong of me. I 'm a bad Scots lassie. But I love you, and I love the school, if only Leuchy there would be friendly. 'Which I have no intention of being, said Leucha.
'You see for yourself, Mrs Macintyre, she denies nothing. She ran away without leave to fetch that odious cat and put it in my bed. 'How did her cheek get so swollen? said Mrs Macintyre. 'Ah, well, we won't talk of that, said Hollyhock. 'Girls that dare must also endure. I 'm sorry Leuchy was so vexed and wouldn't make it up.
'Well, girls, she said, 'to-morrow will be the great day, the grand day, when the Duke gives prizes to the school. I think nothing myself of the prizes, having a right on my mother's side to the grand crest of the Camerons; but I 'm drowsy. Most of you have done your best, and even Leuchy will be put about if she does not get a prize. Listen to me, lassies.
'Oh, but he 'd die! cried Jasper. 'Dear Duke of Ardshiel, I think, down deep in my heart, that Hollyhock will recover. Meanwhile, in the sickroom, the girl who had gone through so much raved and moaned, and went over and over again the terrible feat she had achieved, and over and over again one special name came to her lips. 'Leuchy, you might have kissed me. I do think you might have kissed me.
I know too well the kind you are made of, Leuchy Villiers. Hollyhock did wrong, and Meg did, to my thinking, a sight worse. 'Meg was really noble, said Leucha. 'If that's your idea of nobleness, keep it and treasure it all your life. 'Meg had to save her soul, said Leucha. 'Oh, my word! cried Jasper; 'and is our darling Hollyhock's soul of no account?
Now, then, stay where you are until I come to fetch you. Then, when I say, "Fly, ghostie! away, ghostie!" you can go back to the hut and take off the disguise which turns you into so fearsome an object. I have brought a jug of hot water, and here is a basin, and you can wash your face and hands. Leuchy will certainly not recognise you.
He naturally thought that Holly, the dear that she was, had gone too far; but he could not stand a common-place girl like Leuchy making such a row. Now the facts were simply these. Leucha hated, with a violent, passionate, wicked hate, all the terrible past; but she still loved loved as she could not believe possible that black-eyed lass Hollyhock.
Hollyhock's heart was also aching for Leucha, and her anxiety was great with regard to what was taking place at The Garden. Would Jasmine and Jasper between them have any effect on Leuchy? Hollyhock felt for the first time in her life feverish, miserable, and anxious.
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