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You see, it's patronized by the teachers and the Preceptress herself. We'll be sure to meet the very nicest girls." "That doesn't follow," said Helen, somewhat stubbornly. "Anyway, we can't go, Ruth." "But I don't understand, dear," said the puzzled Ruth. "Why, don't you see?" exclaimed Helen, with some exasperation. "I told Miss Cox we'd go with her." "Go where?" "To her club.
As soon as it was known that the daughter of the Preceptress had arrived, the citizens of whatever city we had stopped in hastened to extend to her every courtesy and favor possible for them to bestow. She was the daughter of the woman who held the highest and most enviable position in the Nation. A position that only great intellect could secure in that country.
At all events the two little newcomers, cowering somewhat under the glittering gaze of their preceptress, drew for protection close to one another, small hand found small hand, and a friendship was cemented which the swirling years had proved unable to break. Their later experiences at this fountain of learning served only to draw them closer still.
If they do not choose to come, then they have the alternative. Good-night! Don't worry about me, Miss O'Day. I'm learning to take care of myself." Then she put up her lips to be kissed again. The following morning the preceptress did not appear at breakfast, as Azzie had predicted. The dinner hour, according to the custom for all holidays, had been postponed until two o'clock.
It is the amiable defect of the English public never to know when they have had enough of a good thing. They actually try to encore one of her characters an old north-country lady; modeled on that honored preceptress in the late Mr. Vanstone's family to whom I presented myself at Combe-Raven. This particular performance fairly amazes the people. I don't wonder at it.
I really hoped the girls of my dormitory would not force me to call the attention of the Preceptress to them because of demerits this half and I did not believe the trouble would start with two young ladies who had just arrived." So saying, she departed. But Helen whispered Ruth, before she got in bed, to help remove the remaining goodies to the box in the closet.
It was teacher and pupil. She unsuspectingly insisted on following her rôle of preceptress and very earnest was she about it, too. She saw nothing comical in his frequent linguistic stumblings that would naturally lead to melting moods. As the Germans have, of course, little humor, she found in these faulty exhibitions only causes for disappointed glances and reprimands approaching severity.
Her voice echoed from one end of the hall to the other, and reached even to Miss Burkham's ears; but that lady did not appear to reprimand her. The preceptress realized that the girls had been under a nervous strain all day and she did not have it in mind to restrain them, even though they exceeded the bounds laid down by Seminary law.
One thing girls come away from home for, to an institution like this, is to learn self-control and self-government. If you need help do not be afraid to go to your instructors, or come to me. Confide in us. But, on the other hand, you must learn to judge for yourself. We do not punish an act of wrong judgment, here at Briarwood." And so the Preceptress bade them good-evening.
A life surrounded by refinement must absorb some of it. I had a conversation with the Preceptress upon this subject, and she said: "Some natures are so undecided in character that they become only what their surroundings make them. Others only partially absorb tastes and sentiments that form the influence about them.
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