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The boys looked at her with undisguised disdain, and expressed openly their astonishment at Hollyhock's taste; but when she begged of them to be good to the poor girlie, the Precious Stones succumbed, as they ever did, to bonnie Hollyhock. The school had been open now for some time, and the full number of seventy was made up.
But a girl, a healthy girl, even though suffering from shock, quickly gets over it if properly managed, and by the middle of the week Leucha was allowed to go downstairs and sit in the ingle-nook, while the girls who had hitherto detested her crowded round to congratulate their beloved Hollyhock's friend.
Hollyhock's present object, however, was to get Leucha to put down her name for the essay, explaining to her how great would be the glory of the happy winner of the diamond locket. 'You may be sure it is worth trying for, said Hollyhock, 'for the brave old Duke never does anything by halves. 'Ah, kiss me, kiss me, said Leucha. 'I'd do anything for you; you know that.
She won the affections of a certain number of the new Scots girls, and tried her best to set them against Hollyhock; but there was a magical influence about Hollyhock which prevented any girl being set against her; and although the girls did say that Meg had a sturdy conscience, and that she must be very happy to have made her confession, yet as the evening hour drew on they returned, as though spell-bound, to Hollyhock's side to listen with fascinated eyes and half-open mouths to her tales of bogies and ghosties.
Oh, but won't I give it to that ghost; he had no right to ask those services of an English girl! Firmer and firmer did Hollyhock support her trembling companion, and the girl who hated her, but who clung to her so tightly at that moment, entered the house with Hollyhock's arms about her. There were a number of girls in the great hall the most magnificent hall in the country.
A few of them even wept as they listened, and the one who wept most sadly was Meg, that pious maid, who had done such mischief to save her soul. 'Oh Holly, but I do love you! said Meg, laying her head for a minute on Hollyhock's shoulder. Hollyhock, who, as is well known, could not bear kisses, gently patted Meg's hand, and then stood up.
'That I do, replied Leucha; and so marvellously had love found out the way that the very expression of her unpleasant little face had completely altered. As Hollyhock's friend, she was now admitted into the greatest secrets of the school; but the real secret of the ghost was still kept back.
'You must be careful, Hollyhock; for were you to swallow all that mercury, it would kill you. 'Oh, auntie, what dreadful things you say! Well, stick it in, and then tell me the news that none of the others know. The thermometer was inserted. Hollyhock's temperature was perfectly normal, and she was then questioned with regard to her throat and her health generally.
'You really are noble in your own funny way, Hollyhock, said Jasmine. She repeated Hollyhock's words to Leucha, taking care to do so when a number of the girls were present. But Lady Leucha, whatever she was, was obstinate. On her father's side she was well-born; but her mother was a cross-grained lady, extremely ambitious and proud of nothing at all, and Lady Leucha took after her mother.
But it's all right now, Hollyhock, and you 'll have a right jolly time at the school. Whatever Hollyhock's feelings may have been, she went to school on the following Monday morning with a good grace. She was the sort of girl who, when once she put her hand to the plough, would not take it back again.
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