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Tellingham doesn't like the story to be repeated," added Miss Fairfax. "She thinks such superstitions aren't good for the minds of the Primes and Infants," and the story-teller laughed. "However, it is a fact that the original owner of Briarwood Hall had a beautiful daughter. She was the apple of his eye all beautiful daughters are apples of their fathers' eyes," said Lluella, laughing.
She remained very glum while at the picnic grounds. But, as Ruth had said, the incident served to break the ice. Ann had gotten her start. Somebody beside the "primes" gave her "the glad hand and the smiling eye." Briarwood began to be a different sort of place for the ranch girl.
Apparently the afternoon tea was given in Room Seven in honor of Beautiful Beulah, Nan's famous doll. "But I'm too big to play dolls," Rhoda Hammond objected when Nan urged her attendance on a rainy Saturday afternoon. "Pshaw!" laughed Nan, "you're not too big to pass tea and cocoa and sweet crackers to the primes who will come to worship at the shrine of my Beautiful Beulah.
It was quite evident that it had been mainly held for the introduction of Ruth Fielding and her chum into the society of the Briarwood girls. Those gathered in the assembly room did not number any Seniors, but were all of the Junior grade, and all older than Ruth and Helen. "Primes" were not allowed by Mrs. Tellingham to join any of the class-governed societies.
Besides, it was an honor not to be scorned, to be chosen to preside over the "primes," or to take the head of a table at dinner. A teacher was ill on one day and Miss Brokaw asked Ruth to take certain classes of the primary grade.
The sick man was well enough to be driven off in a carriage, and there's nothing further to tell as yet." "I wish I had known about him earlier before the Primes came," said Armstrong thoughtfully, knocking the ashes off his cigar. "Of course you divine my theory?" "That Morton's the missing son and heir? Of course. Now that I've seen Miss Prime the family resemblance is strong.
Helen was so pretty and so vivacious, that she was bound to gather around her almost at once those girls who were the more easily attracted by such a nature; while for Ruth's part, the little Primes found that she was both kind and loving. It had been so at the school near the Red Mill, and Ruth was glad the little folk took to her.
Moreover, he had counted on going to town right after "retreat," dining at the Palace, an extravagance not to be thought of at other times, so as to be on hand when the Primes and Amy Lawrence came down to dinner.
"Do you ever go to Primes at six o'clock in the morning, Cousin Peligros?" "No," was the grave answer. "Such things are not expected of ladies." "How thoughtful of Heaven!" exclaimed Juanita, with a light laugh. "Then I do not mind being grownup and putting up my hair if you will lend me two hairpins."
Now from one a laugh is sprung; but, as if too early tapped, he turns off the cock, and primes himself anew. Occupied by their own requirements, these Britons allow that their neighbours have rights: no cursing at waste of time is heard when plates have to be passed: disagreeable, it is still duty. Field-Marshal Duty, the Briton's chief star, shines here.
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