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'Yes, I expect that's about all, said Jasmine, but she spoke with a certain uneasiness, which was not, however, apparent in her voice. By-and-by the girls followed Hollyhock to their rooms. It has been said already that Hollyhock's room and Leucha's were side by side. Hollyhock went up to bed on this special night before nine o'clock. She guessed well that Leucha would be in her room.
Poor Hollyhock was feeling so restless and despairing that she threw extra venom into her narratives, making the ghosts worse than any ghosts that were ever heard of before, and the bogies and witches more subtle and more vicious. Meg did not dare to come near, but she looked with contempt at her friends who were so easily drawn to Hollyhock's side.
One day, about a fortnight before the general break-up at the school, when Mrs Macintyre was preparing to have a joyful time with her friends in Edinburgh, and the Palace of the Kings was to be shut up, a band a very large band of girls were collected round the fire in the ingle-nook in the great hall, and were listening to Hollyhock's fascinating words. Suddenly Agnes Featherstonhaugh spoke.
'Send that child out of the room, George, said Aunt Agnes. 'I refuse to stir, was Hollyhock's response. 'George, is it true that you have insulted my dead sister's memory by calling one of her offspring by such an awful name as Hollyhock? 'I have not insulted my wife's memory, Agnes. I took a fancy to call my little girls after flowers. This is Jasmine real name Lucy, after my lost darling.
Oh, how happy they were! for his little Hollyhock the child who had troubled him all the week overcome by varied emotions, sprang to his side, pushed both Jasmine and Gentian away, and said, 'Oh, daddy, I have been a bad, bad lassie, but I'm all right now; and if you'll listen, daddy mine, and if the others will hold their peace for a minute, I 'll let my great secret out. There was a new sound in Hollyhock's voice.
The stable would be locked now; but he might go to the front-door and scrabble with his feet and make a loud and piercing whinny. Then, of a surety, the Lennox man, Hollyhock's father, would come out, and he, Lightning Speed, would lead him to the scene of danger. Now there was one fact that both girl and horse forgot.
Meg stared at the girl whom she now considered her enemy in haughty surprise, refused to reply to any of Hollyhock's endearments, and walked away with her head in the air. 'You dare, she exclaimed at last, 'when you know too well that you ought to be expelled!
Naughty Hollyhock's last effort before she left the Parlour had been to pour a small jug of water over the fast-expiring coals. 'I 'm thinking this will settle matters, she said to her adoring companions. 'Let them try their hardest now if they like, but we 'll find our own cubby hole and light our fire somewhere else. No sooner said than done, for Hollyhock was an adept at small manual jobs.
Even Barbara and Dorothy Fraser went boldly to her side, and congratulated her on her self-restraint, and even apologised for their cousin's unseemly conduct. Hollyhock's fine eyes lit up with a great glow. 'I do not care, she said. 'Poor lassie! I pity her; I do, truly! 'You are a wonderful girl, Hollyhock, said Dorothy; 'and may my sister and I join your circle to-night?
She went up high right over Hollyhock's head." Hollyhock, who had been gazing about, lowered his head. "She is out of sight," he told the Rosebush and the Pansies. "The Wind came this morning and whispered to her, but I could not hear what he said; but she opened wide her blossom and nodded." "Now, what do you suppose there is between the Windflower and the Wind?" asked Rosebush.
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