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Out of eight hundred penitentiary prisoners, not more than twenty or thirty would be women; and the majority of them could trace their crimes to man's infidelity. "And what do you do to reform them?" inquired the Preceptress. "We offer them the teachings of Christianity. All countries, however, differ widely in this respect.
In a great weariness he felt himself sinking together. The consciousness drained out of him as an ebbing wave does from the sands of the shore. Valencia Valdés did not conform closely to the ideal her preceptress at the Washington finishing school had held as to what constitutes a perfect lady.
She had married late in life, having been previously a preceptress in a young ladies' school. She was still the example of her own precepts all outward decorum if not inward composure. Madelon Hautville, opposite her, in her snow-powdered cloak, with her face like a flash of white fire in her snow-powdered silk hood, seemed in comparison a female of another and an older race.
The laugh and delighted applause that was given her seemed to have been the last straw to the actors behind the shrubbery, restrained by their young preceptress, for the pageant broke upon us. First Mikey, with huge white cambric stork wings, hopped upon the stage of sward and deposited the brown-wrapped Suckling in a hollow log in the center, and departed flapping.
Miss Polk and Madge Steele were not the only Seniors who showed the chums some attention, either; and Ruth and Helen began secretly to count the little buttons marked "F. C." which they saw, as compared with the few stars bearing the intertwined "U" and "D" of the Upedes. The friends heard that the last named association was governed by the Preceptress and teachers almost entirely.
Under such circumstances it is probable that I should have derived little or no advantage from my studies had not my preceptress possessed a valuable ally in my own inclinations.
"But Utanka having recovered his ear-rings thought, 'O, this is that sacred day of my preceptress. I am at a distance. How can I, therefore, show my regard for her?
We were provided with food and clothing prepared expressly for the severe change to and rigors of the Arctic climate through which we must pass. I was constantly dreading the terrors of that long ice-bound journey, but the Preceptress appeared to be little concerned about it. When I spoke of its severities, she said for us to observe her directions, and we should not suffer.
The child glanced towards her mother, who was standing by a window, and I saw who was her preceptress. I felt that I had taken sufficient vengeance, and began to examine her drawings, to praise them in detail, and to congratulate her on her talents. I told her that she ought to be thankful to have a mother who had given her so good an education.
"By the way," said the Preceptress, her brow clouding again and the stern look coming back into her face that had rested on it when Ruth had first entered the room, "you had met Miss Picolet before you arrived at the school?" "She spoke to us in the stage yes, ma'am." "But before that you had seen her?" "Ye-es, ma'am," said Ruth, slowly, beginning to suspect that Mrs.
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