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Updated: June 18, 2025
The doctor says I must have a 'diversity' of interests to offset the strain of making cement-mixers and I think to rub up against two hundred boys and girls will fill the bill, don't you? They've remodeled the building at Highacres this summer and completed one addition. There are twenty acres of ground, too, for outdoor athletics." "What a wonderful gift," mused Mrs.
Albert Crowe, for many years janitor of Lincoln School, had gone, ten minutes earlier, in his Sunday best, to attend the annual banquet of the Janitors' Association and his assistant had made his last rounds of the School, so that the shouts of the girls echoed and re-echoed vainly through the deserted halls of Highacres. Jerry leaned, exhausted, against the wall.
"Why, mother, honest truly there's never been a moment when I wasn't glad I was only Jerauld Travis, and I wouldn't trade places with a soul, only " and Jerry could not finish, for she did not know just what she wanted to say. She was oddly disturbed. Did her mother begrudge her those happy weeks at Highacres? Had she been afraid of something?
For the first time since she had come to Highacres, Jerry grew conscious of her own appearance. Over her, in a hot wave of mortification, swept the realization of what a ridiculous figure she would present, walking up before everybody in her brown poplin that she knew now was different from any other dress she had seen at school. And Jerry could not get that shiny pump out of her mind!
Isobel and Gyp stood aside. Jerry's eyes were shining it was fun to pretend that, maybe, a shadowy, spectral Fate waited there in the valley to hear what they were saying! "I wish oh, it seems as though just going back to Highacres is all anyone could wish!
"When I'm a man I want to be just like you and father." Isobel would not let herself be persuaded to accept her family's point of view. In her heart there still rankled the thought that Uncle Johnny had taken Barbara Lee with him to Highacres and had made her stay at home.
Old Peter Westley had made up his mind, so gossip said, to build Highacres when he heard that Thomas Knowles, a business rival, had bought a palatial home on the most beautiful avenue of the city. "Pouf" that was Uncle Peter's favorite expression and he had a way of blowing it through his scraggly mustache that made it most impressive. "Pouf! I'll show him!"
During the night King Winter maliciously abetted Ginny in her work, for a turn in his temper laid a sparkling crust over everything and especially the little snowlady who waited, immovable, on a little rise of ground near the main entrance of the school. The pupils, arriving at Highacres the next morning, rubbed their eyes in their amazement.
Jerry thought, as she watched her, that she'd rather have Isobel love her than any of those other nice girls she had met at Highacres Patricia Everett, Ginny Cox, Peggy Lee, Keineth Randolph "I'll just make her," she vowed, gathering up her shiny new school-books. And that solemn vow was to help Jerry over many a rough spot in the schooldays to come.
Gyp also became reconciled to the school library as a setting for the proposal and declared that, thereafter, the library at Highacres would be enshrined in her heart as something other than a room to "make one's head ache." But both girls were disgusted that Uncle Johnny could cheerfully leave the lady of his choice and go off on a search that appeared so useless!
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