Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 5, 2025
How very kind you have been to me!" and again the tears were trembling in the nervous eyes of the poor, overwrought girl. Lady Constance had now joined them, and the children stood around, all eyes and ears. "Kate, take them in," said the mistress to a tiny monitress, when she became conscious of the inquiring glances. All were seated demurely as Elsie and the two ladies entered.
And she knew also that the father, as yet, was quite in the dark on the matter. How was it possible that in such circumstances she should assume the part of the girl's confidential friend and monitress? Were she to do so she must immediately tell the father everything. In such a position no one could be a better friend than Lady Cantrip, and Mrs.
MY DEAR FRIEND AND MONITRESS, I have left your last letter a month unanswered. I could not reply to your congratulations on the event of my attaining the age of twenty-one. That event is a conventional sham, and you know how I abhor shams and conventions. The truth is that I am either much younger than twenty-one or much older.
Ah, truly, the heart is an unruly pupil. It is ever rebellious against the teaching of the stern monitress Duty." Phillip Lawson heaved a sigh and then continued: "Whatever the future will bring God only knows; whatever is is all for the best." But of the incoming morn. An unusual babble and hurry-scurry time was going on long ere Herbert Rutherford had thought fit to arouse his friend.
"Angel girls are all very well at home, but school is a scrimmage and it's those who fight who come up on top! Don't laugh! Oh, I enjoy fighting! I tell you I want most desperately and tremendously to be made a monitress, and if I'm not chosen, well it will be the disappointment of my life! I'm not joking! I mean it really and truly. I've set my heart upon it."
I was in a splenetic humour, and indulged myself in an exclamation against such an abominable waste of gunpowder; for which I got reproved by my angelic monitress, who told me that, of all its uses and abuses, this was the most innocent. I suppose our stay here will not be less than a fortnight.
It is a crime to withhold it." But again the monitress was stilled, and the crafty girl kept on her way, firm in her sinful purpose, until she reached the corner which brought her in sight of the window where Fanny was impatiently watching for her. The sight of that bright, joyous face, as it looked from the window, anxious for the expected sight of her letter, made Julia for a moment waver.
I have sometimes wondered whether the obviously scandalised gesture of the Lady Principal might not be directed at these Cupids, rather than at anything the monitress may have been reading, for she would surely find them disquieting. Or she may be saying, "Why, bless me! I do declare the Virgin has got another hamper, and St. Anne's cakes are always so terribly rich!"
The idea had been pressing upon her, clamouring in her brain ever since Miss Mitchell's announcement, but she must consider it carefully before she acted upon it. Sitting in her green nook, watching the golden light sparkling upon the river below, she faced her problem: "Merle would really make a far better monitress than I should. Oughtn't I to give the post up to her?"
Jane was seriously affected by this unstinted praise, and she was almost overwhelmed when her monitress showed the courage of her convictions by offering a place in her box. "Oh-h-h!" she mimicked, after Jane. "What does that mean? Will you or won't you?" "If I only could," said Jane; "it's the first thing of any account I've had a chance at since I don't know when.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking