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It isn't nearly as big as The Follies, and the people don't seem so rich; and I have seen fat Mrs. Merriman all my life driving about with the cob and the governess-cart; and I have seen Professor Merriman, too, with his bent back and long hair. But I never chanced to come across Lucy except that time in church, and then I thought her horrible. Why should I alter my plans because of the Merrimans?
"But you weren't good yourself while you were at the Merrimans'. How can you expect me to be?" "We'll keep each other good. When I am inclined to be naughty you shall correct me, and when you are inclined to be naughty I will correct you. We will arrange to sleep in the same room. Shall we try it, Irene shall we?" Irene paused for a minute. There were tears in her eyes.
I don't mind a bit having done that, for I know that you wanted me; but I think I ought to go back to the Merrimans' for at least a term." "Even with Lucy, odious creature?" "Well, now, you don't know her." "But you do; and do you like her?" "I can't honestly say that I do."
"What a queer term it has been!" said Rosamund, talking to Irene as they walked by the water-side. "I, who belonged to the Merrimans' party, spending all my time with you; you working hard at your daily lessons and enjoying them; Miss Frost and Miss Carter the best of friends, and meeting Sunday after Sunday; and you having quite a fancy yes, and more than a fancy for Maud Singleton!"
"That doesn't mean, my darling Rosamund, that you are going to leave us? I really couldn't consent to part with you. I can never, never express all that you have been to me," said poor Lady Jane, her eyes filling with tears. "Well, I can only part from you by going back to mother, for they won't receive me any more at the Merrimans'." "But why not, Rosamund?" "Because I have taken up with Irene.
"I think you could be splendid; but at the present moment I consider that you are exceedingly naughty," said Rosamund. "But then, I am not a bit too good myself, so I suppose that is why I tolerate you. Now, will you please row back to the shore, for I am afraid I must be returning to the Merrimans'?"
"That depends on your mother and, I suppose, on the people I am living with the Merrimans." "I don't know them." "Don't know them? Why, they live quite close." "I don't know any of the girls round here. There is a Merriman called Lucy, a horrid prig, isn't there?" "I must confess that I don't care for her," said Rosamund. "Ah! then we have something in common.
Irene, with all her faults, was true to her word, and one day just when the long summer holidays were coming to an end, and when every one was talking and thinking again of school life and school affairs, and its joys and sorrows, Irene went and sat down on a low stool by her mother's side. "You are sending me next week to the Merrimans'," she said.
"Expelled from the Merrimans'?" said Lady Jane in a low tone of intense distress and feeling. "It is true. They have expelled me or at least the Professor has. I am never going back. Now, I want to know whether I am to go to mother at Brighton, where she is at present, or whether I shall stay with you for a little, and and help Irene." Lady Jane's eyes filled with tears.
It is such a relief to the Merrimans that she is getting on so well." "And a great relief to me," said Rosamund. Irene moved away to talk to three little red-haired girls, who made a charming group, standing under an oak-tree. She soon had them in fits of laughter; and Mr. Singleton, just glancing at her, spoke again to Rosamund. "What a miracle you have performed!" he said.
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