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We just slacked and lazed, and amused ourselves till the Monday morning, and then, like giants refreshed, we went down to the fray and " "And what?" "I've told you before! I got second-class honours, and the Macdiarmid came out first in all England, distinction in a dozen subjects arithmetic among them.
"I'll tell you a story!" said Marian quietly "a true story from my own experience. It was when I was at school and going in for the Cambridge Senior, the last week, when we were having the exams. We had slaved all the term, and were at the last gasp. The head girl was one Annie Macdiarmid, a marvel of a creature, the most all-round scholar I've ever met.
Hurst was elected president. Other officers were: Vice-presidents, Mrs. Belford, Mrs. C. H. Burke, Mrs. Hood; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Mack; recording secretary, Mrs. Bessie Mouffe; financial secretary, Mrs. Harold Duncan; treasurer, Mrs. Eichelberger; auditor, Mrs. Katherine Flett; librarian, Mrs. F. C. MacDiarmid.
He came into the room, papers in hand, his mouth screwed up, and his eyebrows nearly hidden under his hair. We knew at a glance that something awful had happened. He cleared his throat several times, and began to read aloud the arithmetic results. `Total, a hundred. Bessie Smith, eighty-seven. There was a rustle of surprise. Not Annie Macdiarmid?
Just Bessie an ordinary sort of creature, who wasn't going in for the Local at all. `Mary Ross, eighty-two. Stella Bruce, seventy-four. Where did I come in? I'd never been lower than that. `Kate Stevenson, sixty-four. Some one else fifty, some one else forty, and thirty and twenty, and still not a mention of Annie Macdiarmid or of me. You should have seen her face! I shall never forget it.
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