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It contained humiliations and pleasures, but they had been all matters of spiritual relation, connected with one figure only the figure of her schoolmistress, Miss Pemberton; and with one emotion only a passion, an adoration, akin to that she had lavished on the Ellertons, but now much more expressive and mature.
She had commanded me like a dog, and like a dog I was about to obey when I caught sight of Betsy Beauty's face, which, beaming with satisfaction, seemed to be saying: "Now, we shall see." I would not stir after that, and the schoolmistress, leaving her desk, came towards me, and looking darkly into my face, said: "You wilful little vixen, do you think you can trifle with me?
The schoolmistress took her into the parlour, gave her tea and cake, and was kind to her; and she took it all with broody cheerfulness. One Sunday morning she came down to the cottage and sat on the edge of the verandah, looking as wretchedly miserable as a girl could. She was in rags at least, she had a rag of a dress on and was barefooted and bareheaded.
Oh, said the schoolmistress, he must look out for my sister's heresies; I am afraid he will be too busy with them to take care of mine. Do you mean to say, said I, that it is YOUR SISTER whom that student The young fellow came in and sat down in a chair, putting his heels on the top of another. Pooty girl, said he. A fine young lady, I replied.
She had lost her puritan primness, and behaved more in accordance with her slanting eyes than with her bringing up. She giggled like a schoolgirl rather than a schoolmistress, tried to make herself look young, and copied Monny in the way she tilted her hat and dressed her hair.
She was quite sincere: it was natural to her to say "pretty things" to people. "Quite so," the schoolmistress admitted. "Quite so, dear Margaret, if you keep within your own grade in society. There is no pupil in this establishment, I am thankful to say, who is not of suitable family and prospects to become your friend.
The greatest success of the Freedmen's Bureau lay in the planting of the free school among Negroes, and the idea of free elementary education among all classes in the South. It not only called the schoolmistress through the benevolent agencies, and built them schoolhouses, but it helped discover and support such apostles of human development as Edmund Ware, Erastus Cravath, and Samuel Armstrong.
It may turn out the other way, as I have heard one of our literary celebrities argue, and though I took the other side, I liked his best, that the American is the Englishman reinforced. Will you walk out and look at those elms with me after breakfast? I said to the schoolmistress.
Winters, backed up by the schoolmistress, declared that the family's only salvation lay in a thorough, all-around thrashing; and after much scolding, and dire prophecies of the gallows as the termini of the orphans' careers, Jake and Hannah, like two frightened children, were driven to make the desperate promise that as soon as the culprits returned they would administer to each a severe castigation.
It would be ripping fun!" The idea appealed to Meg and Elsie, and, rather to the astonishment of the girls, the boys also took it up with enthusiasm, and volunteered their assistance. They enlisted the help of the village schoolmistress, and some of the most tuneful among her pupils, and all on the spur of the moment made up their company.
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