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Updated: June 25, 2025
By and by Priscilla's voice, stiff but with a break in it, fell upon her ear. "I think the students at St. Benet's must be very cruel." "My dear Miss Peel, the honor of the most fascinating college in England is imperiled. Unsay those words." Maggie Oliphant was joking. Her voice was gay with badinage, her eyes brimful of laughter.
Benet's when a girl such as you are came to live here. But I don't want to speak of that now, Rosalind; there is something you must do before you leave." "What is that?" "You must go to Priscilla Peel and humbly beg her pardon." "Oh, I cannot, I cannot! You have no idea how I hate Priscilla." "I am not surprised; the children of darkness generally hate those who walk in the light."
Benet's with a staff and his tall mitre, and a lamb in his arms; and he stared at it and gnashed his teeth at it as he tramped in; and then came the others, all like bishops, all in mass-vestments or cloth cut to look like them; and then at the end came a dog that belonged to one of them, well-trained, with the Popish Host in his mouth, made large and white, so that all could see what it was.
As for the other lady, could she also be on her way to Benet's Park with this uncouth figure, this mannish height and breadth, this complete lack of waist, these large arms and hands, and the over-ample garments and hat, of green cashmere slashed with yellow, in which she was marvellously arrayed?
Maggie consulted no one on this subject. Annabel's unhappy story lay buried with her in her early grave; Maggie would have died rather than reveal it. Now, as she lay back in her carriage, the tears filled her eyes. "I am too weak for this to go on any longer," she said to herself. "I shall leave St. Benet's at the end of the present term. What is the winning of a tripos to me?
She thought disconsolately of the little black enamelled locket and the Roman pearls, which were all the adornments she possessed. After a short journey they alighted at their station as the dusk was beginning. 'Are you for Benet's Park, m'm? said the porter to Lucy. 'All right! the carriage is just outside.
"Are you going back to St. Benet's?" he asked. "Oh, no oh, no!" "'Yes, you mean. I will walk with you as far as the gates." "I am not going back." "Pardon me," said Hammond, "you must go back. So young a girl cannot take long walks alone. If one of your fellow-students were with you, it would be different." "I would not walk with one of them now for the world." "Not with Miss Oliphant?"
"I shall have to leave soon after ten," replied Maggie, "so, if Mr. Hammond cannot arrive until after that hour, I shall not have the pleasure of seeing him." "Oh, but you must really stay later than that; it would be too cruel to leave us so early." "I am afraid I cannot. The gates are closed at St. Benet's at eleven o'clock, and I do not care to remain out until the last moment."
The miseries of her present position were depriving the poor girl of the full use of her intellect. At last he ascertained that Priscilla's all-absorbing present anxiety was to be in time for the half-past six dinner at St. Benet's. "I know we'll be late," she said, "and I'll have broken the rules, and Miss Heath will be so much annoyed with me." Hammond volunteered to look for Miss Merton.
You have done nothing but fidget, fidget for the last half-hour." "I want to go out, Aunt Raby." "To go out? Sakes! what for? And on such a night, too!" "I want to see Mr. Hayes." "Prissie, I think you have got a bee in your bonnet. You'll be lost in this mist." "No, I won't. I missed Mr. Hayes to-day when he called, and I must see him before I go back to St. Benet's.
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