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Updated: June 4, 2025
Well, the great day came yesterday, and poor pater simply couldn't bid in a single drop. It needed ready money, you know. And he had hoped so cheerfully all the time to do something. It broke his heart, I'm sure, to see that Chateau Lafitte go and only imagine, it was bid in by the butler of that odious Higbee.
I don't want to!" almost screamed Cora. "Do you think I am going to have anything to do with a girl who doesn't even know who she is?" "What do you mean, Cora?" asked Corinne, quickly. "That girl," cried Cora, pointing a quivering finger at the silent Nancy, "was just found by somebody when she was a baby and was sent to a charity school the Higbee Endowment School in Maiden, it's called.
Miss Prentice discouraged the giving of presents among the girls at Higbee. She said it occasioned jealousies, and "odious comparisons" of family wealth. Miss Prentice was a very good teacher, and she exerted a careful oversight over both the girls' health and conduct.
She looked down upon the girl's bowed head, and upon the young shoulders heaving with sobs, and a strange expression flitted for the moment across her grim face. Perhaps never before had the principal of Higbee School looked into Nancy's heart and seen the real tragedy of her young life. That summer was much like other summers in Malden.
"Thought it might be some of you folks when I saw the car," said Higbee, shaking hands all around. "And Mrs. Bines, too! and the girl, looking like a Delaware peach when the crop's 'failed. How's everybody, and how long you going to be in the good old town?" "Ah! we were just speaking of Chicago as you came in," said Percival, blandly. "Isn't she a great old town, though a wonder!"
She couldn't bear to tell even Jennie with whom she so desired to be friends where Higbee School was located. Of course, Jennie noticed this point of mystery, and she looked at Nancy curiously. The latter couldn't find another word to say. She skated off by herself. The ringing ice was delightful. Nancy skated as well as any boy, while she was naturally being a girl more graceful in her motions.
He waited, glowing confidently, as one submitting irresistible temptations. Percival beamed upon him with moist eyes. "By Jove, Mr. Higbee! that's clever of you it's royal! Sis and I would like nothing better but you see my poor mother here is almost down with nervous prostration and we've got to hurry her to New York without an hour's delay to consult a specialist.
"But women and children " He repeated the words as if he sought to comprehend them. He seemed like a man with defective sight who has come suddenly against a wall that he had thought far off. Higbee now addressed him. "Brother Rae, in religion you have to eat the bran along with the flour. Did you suppose we were going to milk the Gentiles and not ever shed any blood?" "But innocent blood "
"Sure enough," said her brother. "We must call ma up to see him dressed in those sweet, pretty yachting flannels. Oh, there you are!" as Mrs. Bines joined them. "Just take this glass and treat yourself to a look at your old friend, the baron. You'll notice he has one on see they're waving to us." "Doesn't the baron look just too distinguished beside Mr. Higbee?" said Psyche, watching them.
Brother Samuel Knight got a large sorrel mare; Brother Haight got a span of average American mules; Brother Joel White got a fine mare; Brother Higbee got a good large mule; Bishop Klingensmith got a span of mules. Brothers Haight, Higbee, and Allen each took a wagon. The people took what they wanted, and had divided and used up over half the property before I was put in charge.
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