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Carita and I are to select, too. Come on, girls!" "But, Blue Bonnet!" it was practical Sarah who spoke, "we mustn't be extravagant just because your uncle has been so good. Didn't he put a limit on the price?" "No, he did not, Sarah. Uncle Cliff doesn't put a limit on what he gives. He said to get what you each liked. You'd better get busy. Kitty's going to have the pick if you don't."
"A memory book," Carita corrected. "You put everything in it, you know; things to remind you of the school after you have graduated or gone away. I hope I'll get it awfully full. Oh, Blue Bonnet, I know I'm going to be so happy here in the school. Everybody has been so good to me." A little mantle of shame spread over Blue Bonnet's face and dyed it a glowing red.
It was Blue Bonnet who asked this time. "Oh, you'll have to get the particulars from her. It's as good as a vaudeville stunt to hear Mary tell it. They were having an orgy of some kind last night " "Was Carita in it?" Blue Bonnet asked rising, all the anxiety of a mother hen for a lost chicken in her attitude. "I think she was. There was a room full." Blue Bonnet started for the door.
In front of one of these cafes, some English officers were collected, sipping ices, and criticising the relieving of the guard. Turning a corner of the principal street, a group of half black and three-parts naked children assaulted our traveller, and vociferously invoked carita.
He motioned me down on my knees; but, as I could not speak Spanish enough for that, I mumbled-jumbled something or another, half Spanish and half English, and ended with putting four dollars in his hand for carita, which means charity.
Fraulein traced the giggles to Mary's trunk." At that instant the door opened and Mary came in, followed by Peggy. "What did you get this time, Mary?" Carita asked. Mary, laughed sheepishly. "You talk as if I'd been sentenced," she said, smiling, and showing every one of her beautiful teeth. "Weren't you?" "No, not this time. Miss North was so disgusted she didn't do a thing.
There was something unsatisfactory about the answer and I imagined that Gaines meant purposely to leave it so as not to prejudice the case. Somehow, I felt that there must be something risque in the doings of Karatoff and his "patients." At any rate, it was only natural with anything that Carita Belleville was likely to be concerned with.
I just saw every teacher in the building filing out. You should have seen Fraulein! She had Madam de Cartier buttonholed in the hall talking to her like mad. She dropped her voice as I passed, so I couldn't get a word." "Mary!" Carita exclaimed, "you wouldn't have listened, would you?" "Oh, I don't know. Yes, I think I should if I'd had the chance.
"Alec will be delighted to know he's coming. They were great friends in Texas." "Yes, Knight is going to Washington first, then on to Woodford for a few days, with Alec." "How splendid! Oh, Carita, everything is going so beautifully that it almost makes me afraid. I feel as if the fairies had given me three wishes and they had all come true. I don't know whether I can walk down-stairs or not.
There was no sarcasm in her tones. She laughed with the rest. Blue Bonnet's attention had delighted her. There had been another pleasure during the week, one that Blue Bonnet greatly appreciated. She was allowed ten minutes with Carita in the Infirmary. Carita was sitting up her long hair brushed and braided smartly; her face still a bit white wreathed in smiles. Blue Bonnet hovered over her.
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