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Updated: May 14, 2025
"You've been out of school too many days already this term," she said. "Run along now, or you'll be late!" "Please " I began, for my head really was whirling, although, quite as much, perhaps, from my perversity as from any other cause. Mother turned on me one of her "last-word" glances. "Go to school without another word," she said, quietly. I knew that quiet tone, and I went.
'My dear Mary, do please go down, before we get into the pitiable last-word condition! That condition was reached already; but in Ethel's own bed-room Mary's implicit obedience revived, and away she went, carrying off with her most of what was naughtiness in Gertrude. 'Ethel Ethel dear! cried she at once, 'I know you are coming down on me.
The governess was one of those morbidly sensitive people, who cannot be stopped when once they have begun arguing that they are injured. Two women together, each with the last-word instinct, have no power to cease; and, when the words are spent in explaining not in scolding conscience is not called in to silence them, and nothing but dinner or a thunder-storm can check them.
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