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Updated: September 5, 2025
"That's something to go upon at any rate. I shall need support. I don't believe it's going to be an easy business." "'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," quoted Mavis laughingly. "Exactly. I wanted tremendously to be monitress, but I didn't realise all I was in for. I see many breezes in front." "You'll weather them all, don't fear! After such a splendid start I've every confidence in you.
I'm afraid she's terribly disappointed," commented Aunt Nellie sympathetically. "It seems a pity she wasn't chosen. I suppose she would have made a splendid monitress. It's half the battle to be keen about anything." Mavis agreed, passed the cake, finished her tea, picked up the dropped stitches in Aunt Nellie's piece of knitting, carried a message to the cook, then went out into the garden.
'Not a bit, he assured her eagerly. 'I don't know any girl. I don't care for 'em. I don't, really. The Countess impressively declared to him that he must be guided by her; and that she might the better act his monitress, she desired to hear the pedigree of the estate, and the exact relations in which it at present stood toward the Elburne family.
She walked past them all. When she got as far as the school door she turned to Mrs. Hopkins. "You can tell your aunt that the almshouse is safe," she said, and then she blew a kiss to her and disappeared into the school. In the passage a monitress was standing, and when she saw Kathleen she came up to her and said in an agitated tone: "They are all assembled in the great hall.
You've not done more than an inch of that crochet pattern I taught you. Being monitress is all very well, I daresay, but I'm not going to let you sit up till midnight, my dearie, over your books. Not if I have to go myself to Miss Pollard, and tell her my mind about it."
"Girls," she said at last, "something has happened which gives me more pain than anything else I have experienced during the five years I have taught at The Priory. Yesterday the monitress, when tidying the room, found this book, which she very rightly brought at once to me.
Mrs. Best looked at her reproachfully, and Doreen, who was monitress for the month, took a notebook from her pocket and made an entry therein. Nora and Verity and Fil went on eating sago blanc-mange with stolid countenances that betrayed no knowledge of their room-mate's doings, but that night, when The Foursomes met in the privacy of Dormitory 2, they demanded an account of her adventure.
Countess Jaqueline had been joined by other and more congenial Flemish dames, and was weary of her grave monitress; and she continually scolded at Esclairmonde for perverseness and obstinacy in not accepting the only male thing she had ever favoured.
Thus, upon the whole, the little maiden was disposed to submit, though not without some wincing, to the grave admonitions of the Lady Hermione; and the rather that the mystery annexed to the person of her monitress was in her mind early associated with a vague idea of wealth and importance, which had been rather confirmed than lessened by many accidental circumstances which she had noticed since she was more capable of observation.
"Not so well as Merle! I'm shyer, and I daren't speak out, and I'm not much good at games. And oh! Miss Fanny, there's another side of the question. I know Merle so well. If she's made monitress she'll be heart and soul for the school and an enormous help, but she's a queer girl, and if she has no special place here or anything to concentrate her energy on, she may give trouble."
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