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"Yes," said Judith, sitting up and smiling politely, unconsciously ready for a little more praise: she knew that this was Catherine's friend, Patricia Caldwell, another South House prefect. "Well, then, why aren't you playing basket-ball?" "Because I don't want to play," said Judith calmly; "I prefer tennis." Patricia almost gasped; this from a new girl "She didn't want to!"
She would like it, and the "Argus" perhaps would want it Eleanor closed her tired eyes, and in a moment was fast asleep. It was the day of the great basket-ball game. In half an hour more the gymnasium would be opened to the crowd that waited in two long, sinuous lines, gay with scarfs, banners and class emblems, outside the doors.
What would happen to her if she did this with the funds of her basket-ball team? Yet girls waste the resources of their school by carelessness with its property, a carelessness that collectively mounts up into thousands of dollars, and never once stop to think how difficult every big school finds it to make ends meet.
She received Betty's congratulations just as cordially as she had every one's else, it was one of Beatrice's principles to treat everybody well "up to a certain point," but she did not come to the third floor of the Belden House except on errands. By the middle of February basket-ball practice was in full swing again.
One cannot express an opinion or offer a criticism in her presence unless one is taken to task." "Perhaps it is just as well to let it drop," said Mellie gently. "It is only a game of basket-ball and not worth a heated discussion." "Well, peaches," cried Erma cheerily accosting Hester. "Are you really going home? Won't your Aunt Debby be glad to see you.
His eyes kindled at a pair of golf-sticks, a hockey-stick, a tennis-racket, and a big basket-ball in the corner; and his whole look of surprise was so ridiculous that she had to laugh. He looked as if a miracle had been performed on the room, and actually stepped back into the hall to get his breath and be sure he was still in his father's house.
While Helen made the tea, Miss Carter amused them all with a droll account of her efforts to learn to play basket-ball, "because Miss Adams says it throws so much light on the philosophy of college life." "Then you never played before you came here?" asked Betty idly, stirring her tea. Miss Carter shook her head. "I prepared for college in a convent in Canada.
Llewellyn and Captain Pennell rose to their feet, one shouting, the other yelling with the rest of the mob, while Mrs. Harold and the girls could only sit and laugh helplessly. It was Shortie's long legs which overtook the quarry, both coming to the ground with a crash which would have killed outright any one but a football tackle and a basket-ball captain.
This was not difficult. She wasn't a college girl, she explained, and she had never known many of them. She just wanted to hear them talk, see their rooms, and if it wasn't too much trouble she should enjoy looking on at a game of what was it they played so much at Harding? Basket-ball, somebody prompted. Yes, that was it.
Among the spectators was that girl to whom both Reddy and Heady were devoted, the girl who could not decide between them, she liked both of them so immensely, especially as she herself was the champion basket-ball player among the girls at her seminary.
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