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Updated: May 14, 2025
This was not at all the usual line of conduct which new boys adopted when brought to book by an oldster. Pilson felt aggrieved, but made no attempt to follow up his attack. "All right," he said. "You're a liar, and I'll tell all the other fellows." "You can tell 'em what you please," returned the other, and taking hold of Garston's arm he walked away.
'What makes you so uncharitable, Etta? We all know our village nurse too well to believe that insinuation. If Gladys be only nursed with half the tenderness that was shown to Janet, I shall be quite content to leave her under Miss Garston's care. Then, turning to me, with something of his old cordial manner, 'Well, it is all settled, is it not, that you remain here to-night?
Miss Darrell addressed her eagerly: 'Have you given Miss Gladys the draught, Leah? 'Yes, ma'am, and she seems nicely inclined to sleep. She heard Miss Garston's voice, and sent me down with her love, and she is sorry not to be able to see her to-night. I thought it better to take my leave after this, hoping for better success next time. I watched anxiously for Mr.
It was placed at the end of the programme; Garston's pocket-mirror, the only prize worth having, was to reward the winner; and the conditions were as follows:
She never spoke to her sister about what she read, but when Kitty and she were alone she would keep the child entranced for an hour together by the stories she told her out of Miss Garston's books. 'Sometimes Kitty sings to her, and sometimes they have a rare talk, Miss Locke would say. 'I am often too busy to do more than look in for five minutes or so, to see how they are getting on.
In Garston's opinion, the ideal Form was one which would have no top, and where everybody would be bottom; and when the first week's "order" was read out, he remarked, concerning those new-comers who had won the posts of honour, that it was "like their blessed cheek," and that some of them wanted a licking.
'Master came in just now and asked where you were; I think he told Miss Darrell that it was too late for you to be out walking: so Miss Darrell said she believed you were at the White Cottage, for she saw your muff lying on Miss Garston's table; so she told me to step up here, as it was too dark for you to walk alone, and I was to tell you that they would be waiting dinner.
'Clayton told me that every one else was in Mr. Garston's study, so I begged to run up here. We only came up from Rutherford this morning, and we have been so busy ever since. I was afraid you were asleep, for I knocked at the door without getting any answer; but no, your eyes were wide open; so you were only dreaming. 'I believe I was very tired, they have kept me running about all day.
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