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It was laughable to hear them criticising every hat or costume they have seen, quite unaware that they were stared at themselves, till Charley told them people thought they had come fresh out of Lady Bountiful's goody-box, which piece of impertinence they took as a great compliment to their wisdom and excellence.

It was settled, then, that I should go to Phillips Academy, and preparations were made that I might join the school at the beginning of the autumn. In due time I took my departure in the old carriage, a little modernized from the pattern of my Lady Bountiful's, and we jogged soberly along, kind parents and slightly nostalgic boy, towards the seat of learning, some twenty miles away.

"Sorry, my lady," said the coachman, "but the carriage won't go down." The lady sighed. "I am afraid we shall have to leave it," she said. So the gallant greys dashed past. Where the real poor creep I fear there is no room for Lady Bountiful's fine coach. The ways are very narrow wide enough only for little Sister Pity, stealing softly.

It was settled, then, that I should go to Phillips Academy, and preparations were made that I might join the school at the beginning of the autumn. In due time I took my departure in the old carriage, a little modernized from the pattern of my Lady Bountiful's, and we jogged soberly along, kind parents and slightly nostalgic boy, towards the seat of learning, some twenty miles away.