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But the greater number of the graduating class was distributed among neighbors who in most cases were not averse to accepting good pay for rooms which could only be let to summer boarders and were, at this time of year, never occupied. The Briarwood Hall preceptress allowed her girls to go only where she could trust the land-ladies to have some oversight over their lodgers.
Farnsworth, one of the most distinguished actresses in England, take charge of you." "No! Alice never knew that!" said Mrs. Farnsworth, laughing. "I was her chaperon as well as her preceptress; but Alice's father knew that if Alice found it out it would spoil the adventure for her. Alice must do things in her own way." "You are a fraud," said Alice, "but I always suspected you a little."
"And his preceptress that morning after having bathed was dressing her hair sitting, thinking of uttering a curse on Utanka if he should not return within time. But, in the meantime, Utanka entered his preceptor's abode and paid his respects to his preceptress and presented her the ear-rings. 'Utanka', said she, 'thou hast arrived at the proper time at the proper place.
Reginald was obviously affected by the latter, and when his preceptress suggested that he might begin the strenuous life by helping her to supervise the annual outing of the bucolic infants who composed the local choir, his eyes shone with the dangerous enthusiasm of a convert. Reginald entered on the strenuous life alone, as far as Amabel was concerned.
The Preceptress turned upon me a calm but penetrating gaze. "Have we impressed you as a mysterious people?" she asked. "Very, very much!" I exclaimed. "I have at times been oppressed by it." "You never mentioned it," she said, kindly. "I could not find an opportunity to," I said.
Also it must not be forgotten that Nellie McHurdie since her marriage had become Grand Preceptress in one lodge, Worthy Matron in another, Senior Vice Commander in a third, and Worshipful Benefactress in a fourth, to say nothing of positions as corresponding secretary, delegate to the state convention, Keeper of the Records and Seals, Scribe, and perhaps Pharisee, in half a dozen others, all in the interests of her husband's political future; and with such obvious devotion before him, it is small wonder after all that he succumbed.
I explained my feelings to the Preceptress with great earnestness and anxiety for their future, intimating that I believed their immunity from disaster had been owing to Divine sufferance. "For no nation," I added, quoting from my memory of religious precepts, "can prosper without acknowledging the Christian religion."
Cole, wise enough to keep that essential in view. Thus was I then to lose my faithful preceptress, as did the philosophers of the town the white crow of her profession.
He waved his hand to her as a sign to halt, and rode quickly up, scarcely giving time for a greeting ere he said, 'Sister the little one is not out with you. 'No, truly, the little mad thing, she is stricter and more head-strong than ever was her preceptress. Poor Monique!
It developed upon the Preceptress to break the news to the afflicted mother. It was done in the seclusion of her own home. There was no manifestation of morbid curiosity among acquaintances, neighbors and friends. The Preceptress and one or two others of her nearest and most intimate friends called at the house during the first shock of her bereavement.
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