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Updated: June 16, 2025
I call you an ungrateful serpent to turn and rend us like this." "Clowns indeed! I should think you have something else to think of than clowns! Do you realise that thirty girls are losing their fun for three whole weeks because you won't speak? If you had any nice feeling, you would be too miserable for clowns." "Oh, Pixie, I've such a smashing headache! You might tell!
Bridgie's forehead was fretted with anxious lines, but Pixie nodded back cheery reassurement. "Don't you repine about me, for I got on famously, and Mrs Wallace is coming herself to see you in the afternoon. I've engaged myself as a French lady to amuse the children, and you shall have the money to pay the bills.
Had she ever noticed the way the seeds came fluffing out of the cinnamon cones and the asters and the golden rod and the fire flower in September, for all the world like fairies sailing pixie parachutes? People said that autumn was sad, it presaged death! Did it?
Never before had she been known to lend one of her possessions to another girl, but now she said quite eagerly "I have a lace collar, Pixie a very pretty collar I'll lend it to you, and a white ribbon for your hair! It would lighten your dress wonderfully; and there is a brooch too, and a little gold bangle."
If you put on a cloak, Therese, I will come back for you in ten minutes, and take you to the stables to join father and Pixie. It will amuse you, I'm sure." She left the room without waiting for a reply, and Bridgie heaved a sigh of disappointment. "She's just mad after horses, that girl. Now she will be off with father, and not a sight of her shall we have until afternoon.
She spoke in French, and evidently wished her governess to appear as French on this occasion at least; and Pixie rose to the occasion, sweeping elaborate bows from side to side, unconsciously elevating her shoulders, and waving expressive hands.
She was soon to have an opportunity of trying to help, however, for half an hour later Miss Phipps called her out of class, and said sadly "I can make nothing of Pixie, Margaret. Will you try what you can do? She seems afraid of me, though I have tried to be as forbearing as possible, and perhaps she may speak more freely to a girl like herself.
She was at the bottom of her classes too, being unable to learn in this atmosphere of displeasure, and the governess's strictures had in them a touch of unusual severity. Curiously enough, it was Mademoiselle herself who showed most sympathy with Pixie during those dark days.
To-day, as Lottie flushed, and Margaret looked a pained reproach, it was Pixie who rushed to the rescue, wriggling about in her seat, and clasping and unclasping her hands in the earnestness of her defence. "Clara Montagu, you've no business accusing Lottie! You weren't there, so you can't tell! Perhaps the sun was in her eyes.
As Pixie had suspected, his heart was sore, and the innocent affection which the children lavished upon him made their society more congenial than that of his own companions, who were enjoying their stay in the country in merry, uproarious fashion.
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