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In no further doubt of his good-nature, she spent an hour in the morning in giving him anagrams to guess; and after she had repaired to the schoolroom, he went on inventing fresh ones, and transposing the ivory letters, rambling on in his usual style of pensive drollery.
She had her orders to keep them at their books, she said, and "study was healthful"; at the same time she bade them be in the schoolroom on the morrow. There was a wicked look in Maggie's eyes, but her tongue told no tales, and when next morning she went with Theo demurely to the schoolroom she seemed surprised at hearing from Mrs.
And as for him, as he gazed at her, all the accidents of circumstance, of individual character, seemed to drop from her. He forgot the difference of years; he saw her no longer as she was a girl hardly out of the schoolroom, vain, ambitious, dangerously responsive, on whose crude romantic sense he was wantonly playing; she was to him pure beauty, pure woman.
She took them into the large schoolroom where twenty small people of various sizes sat with their books, very cheerfully imbibing knowledge. Mhor and another small boy occupied one desk. Jean greeted the small boy as "Sandy," and asked him what he was studying at that moment. "I don't know," said Sandy. "Sandy," said Miss Main, "don't disgrace your teachers.
As, with magic effect the strains of "Hail Columbia" poured into the schoolroom, Master Cory skilfully met a moment of open rebellion with these words: "Boys, that organ is a remarkable instrument. You never heard the like of it before. I give you half an hour's intermission. Go into the street and listen to the music!"
"Is he a sailor?" asked Emma Downs. "Yes," said Marjorie. "A common sailor!" "No, an uncommon one." "Is he before the mast?" she persisted. "Does he look so?" asked Marjorie, seriously. "No, he looks like a captain; only that cap is not dignified enough." "It's becoming," said Miss Parks, "and that's better than dignity." The bell rang and the girls passed into the schoolroom in twos and threes.
"It marks, Bob, the delimitation between London and country, between slavery and freedom. Here, every morning, I leave myself behind; here, every evening, I recover myself or, at least, a considerable portion of myself at a further mark, half a mile on, I am completely restored. "I suppose you used to find just the same thing, at the door of the schoolroom?"
Blanche threw open the door with a flourish of triumph, and what Marjory saw caused her heart to beat faster than ever. The doctor rubbed his eyes and asked comically, "Am I dreaming? Is this a real schoolroom and a real governess?" It was indeed a pretty picture that the door had opened upon.
However, Amélie wanted to go inside, and so we did. We entered through the mairie, which is at one side, into a small courtyard, where the school children were playing under the propped- up walls as gaily as if there had never been a bombardment. The mairie had fared little better than the church, and the schoolroom, which has its home in it, had a temporary roofing, the upper part being wrecked.
Their favorite places were in the big barn, on the front porch, or by the spring. This last was Emily's schoolroom, and she both taught and learned many useful lessons there.
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