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They was keepin' at it well, though, each bearin' up patient and waitin' for the happy day, when Myra's younger sister came home from boardin'-school and begun her campaign by practisin' on the Professor, just because he happened to be handy. She was a sweet young thing with cheek dimples and a trilly laugh, and well, you can guess the rest.
"Know Nettie Burton Colebrook? Well, I should say I did! I went to boardin'-school with her." "Humph!" Susan threw a sharp glance into Mrs. McGuire's face. Susan looked as if she wanted to ask another question. But she did not ask it. "Humph!" she grunted again; and turned back to the sheet she was hanging on the line. There was a brief pause, then Mrs.
"Some o' them boys at boardin'-school spend a fierce sight o' money. Some of 'em drink an' gamble. They ain't above gittin' money by hook or crook, ef they need it. Yes, they may be guilty," and the constable swelled out with his own importance. "Perhaps you better question 'em," suggested the farmer, timidly. "Question 'em?" snorted the constable.
"You don't know how much nicer it is to dance outdoors! Come!" She hesitated, but the music was inspiring, and impulsively tossing all else aside she skipped on with Polly. Along the road jogged a buggy, and the driver stared at the unusual sight. Then he stopped his horse. "What's up?" he called out. "Is it a boardin'-school or a lunatic asylum?" Polly and Miss Sterling came whirling toward him.
Take a parcel of sodjers, officers and all, and stretch 'em out in a row, and paint 'em, and then engrave 'em, and put it into one of our annuals, and see how folks would larf, and ask, 'What boardin'-school gall did that? Who pulled her up out of standin' corn, and sot her up on eend for an artist? they'd say. "There is nothin' here to take hold on.
She really hadn't come all the way up from Atlanta to visit Vee even if they were old boardin'-school chums. No, she was on her way to a house party up in Lenox and was fillin' in the time before that happened by making a duty stay with an old maid aunt who lived on Madison Avenue.
"I believe in dressin' up to your name," said Dick. "Do you know any one in Barnton, Connecticut?" asked the clerk, who had by this time found the letter. "Yes," said Dick. "I know a chap that's at boardin'-school there." "It appears to be in a boy's hand. I think it must be yours." The letter was handed to Dick through the window.
"Wherever are you goin', my dear, so alone?" "I'm going to boarding-school," said Laura, and shot a glance at the couple opposite. "To boardin'-school? Peter! D'you hear? Why, whatever's your ma thinkin' of to send such a little chick as you to boardin'-school? ... and so alone, too." Laura's face took on a curious air of dignity.
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