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"And besides," said Priscilla, "she said it, hols that is, to Miss Pettigrew when she was asking when they began. She didn't object." Miss Lentaigne poured out her second cup of tea in silence. Against Miss Pettigrew's tacit approval of the word there was no arguing. Miss Pettigrew, the head of a great educational establishment, does more than win, she awards prizes in English literature.
"Look here," he said, "I've made up my mind about myself!" "Oh!" they exclaimed. "Yes. I'm going to be a dramatist and write plays!" "Why?" Ninian asked. "I dunno! I went to see a play in the hols, and I thought I'd like to write one, too. It seems easy enough. You just make up a lot of talk, and then you get some actors to say it...." "I see," said Ninian.
I shall speak to my mother about him when I go home and see what she suggests. "Hilda's mother has written saying that Hilda is not to spend next hols with me; which was all arranged before the fuss began. I can't see what objection she can possibly have. Anyhow it is frightful tyranny and of course we don't mean to stand it.
"Never mind! We'll have some acting of our own in the hols," she whispered to Merle, who sat next to her. "Rather! And it will beat this simply into fits, though of course I shan't tell them so." The holidays this Christmas were to compensate for every disagreeable thing that had happened in the course of the term.
Afterwards I found that I'd sworn a most solemn oath always to do a kind act to some one every day. That's the sort of way you get let in at those meetings." "You didn't read the directions for use beforehand that time." "No. But in the end it turned out all right. It was just before the hols when it happened, so, of course, Aunt Juliet had to be my principal victim.
She was always, even as a child, fond of using contractions. I remember her writing to me about a 'comp. and she habitually used 'hols' and 'rec. for holidays and recreation." "It sounds to me," said Titherington, "like a police court." "You don't mean to say that you think she's been arrested for anything?" "I hope so." "Why?" I asked. "Was she too much for you this morning?"
Priscilla, released from the tedium of the breakfast table, sped down the long avenue on her bicycle. Across the handle bars was tied a bundle, her towel and scarlet bathing dress. From the back of the saddle, wobbling perilously, hung a much larger bundle, a new lug sail, the fruit of hours and hours of toilsome needlework on the wet days of the Christmas "hols."
He's sure to take their boat back to them." "He has a lady with him," said Frank. "He has. I can't see who she is; but it doesn't look like his mother. Can't be, in fact, for she has a baby to mind. I collared a lot of flannel out of a box in Aunt Juliet's room last 'hols' and gave it to her for the baby. It's a bit of what I gave her that was made into a sleeve for Jimmy's shirt.
"You'll come again, won't you?" "Ra-ther!" he exclaimed. "How long will it be before you can come again?" "I don't know. You see, my father'll expect me to go home in the summer...." "Oh!" "But I might come for part of the hols. I'd like to!" "Yes," she said, sliding one of her feet in front of her and regarding the tip of her shoe intently.
Just as well to get it through. It might" he opened his pale eyes with a startled look "it might have come on in the hols! Pretty fool I should have looked if I'd been done out of winter sports." "There's that way of looking at it!" Claire said demurely.
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