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'Why should a young maid talk so ignorant? Ye 'll be a' richt yet, lassie; but there, ye 're lonesome, my bonnie dearie. 'Suppose, now, you had been me, Duncan, what would you have done? said Hollyhock suddenly. 'Why, gone to Ardshiel, of course. 'Duncan, I hate you. You 're another traitor.
She knew well that she herself was a very efficient teacher; she was also a very persuasive teacher, and Mrs Macintyre had eagerly agreed to her suggestion that she should be her kindergarten mistress, thus helping Mrs Constable to pay in part for the enormous expense of sending five boys to Ardshiel.
How she blamed herself now for allowing Joey Comfort to bring the horse to Ardshiel! But it was too late for praise or for blame. All Magsie could do was to act, and act promptly. Accordingly, flying like a wild creature, she made for the lodge gates, which, as she had feared, she found unlocked. Hollyhock had the keys.
She has taken Ardshiel, and she is going to turn it into a great school, a great, monstrous, magnificent school; and we are all going we, and you, and heaps more children besides; and mother is nearly off her head with delight. Of course, as far as I am concerned, I shall only be able to stay at such a school for one year, for I must then go on to a public school.
"I am not the only man that can draw steel in Appin; and when my kinsman and captain, Ardshiel, had a talk with a gentleman of your name, not so many years back, I could never hear that the Macgregor had the best of it." "Do ye mean my father, sir?" says Robin. "Well, I wouldna wonder," said Alan. "The gentleman I have in my mind had the ill-taste to clap Campbell to his name."
Appin House is a large plain country house, close to the sea. Further north-east, the house of Ardshiel, standing high above the sea, is visible from the steamer going to Fort William. At Ardshiel, Rob Roy fought a sword and target duel with the laird, and Ardshiel led the Stewarts in the rising of 1745; Appin, the chief, held aloof.
'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.
Now that you have decided to go there, Hollyhock, it will bring the number of her pupils in the course of next week up to nearly seventy. Hollyhock sat very cold and still. 'You don't look pleased, my child, and yet you were so strong against a mixed school. 'Well, yes, I was, and I am still. For that matter, I hate all schools. 'But you faithfully promised me to go to Ardshiel, Hollyhock.
Leucha liked the boy element in the school, and was exceedingly sorry to part with it; but she perceived, to her intense satisfaction, that the English contingent of girls at Ardshiel was very strong, and that, notwithstanding all her audacity and daring, Jacko of course she was Jacko could be kept in a minority.
The only thing they had to do was carefully to select their subject and hand it under a feigned name to Mrs Macintyre, the envelope being sealed, and the lady herself not knowing its contents until the day before the prizes were to be given by the Duke of Ardshiel himself to the school.
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