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Updated: May 25, 2025
But presently he was conscious of a more active movement in the hall, of the sounds of scuffling, of a high youthful voice saying "I won't" and "I shan't!" of the door opening to a momentary apparition of Miss Tish dragging a small hand and half of a small black-ribboned arm into the room, and her rapid disappearance again, apparently pulled back by the little hand and arm; of another and longer pause, of a whispered conference outside, and then the reappearance of Miss Tish majestically, reinforced and supported by the grim presence of her partner, Miss Prinkwell.
The principal of the school, Miss Eudoxia Tish associated with er er Miss Prinkwell is er remarkably gifted woman; and as I was present at one of the school exercises, I had the opportunity of testifying to her excellence in er short address I made to the young ladies."
"I knew they'd be there; I'd already fixed 'em. They're just dyin' to know you." The colonel felt a certain glow of pleasure, "I er had already intimated a er willingness to er inspect the classes; but I er understood that the rules" "They're sick old rules," interrupted the child. "Tish and Prinkwell are the rules! You say just right out that you WILL! Just overdo her!"
Although nothing could exceed the laborious simplicity and husky sweetness of the colonel's utterance, it appeared to demoralize utterly his two hearers Miss Prinkwell seemed to fade into the pattern of the wall paper, Miss Tish to droop submissively forward like a pink wax candle in the rays of the burning sun. "We will bring her instantly.
He was er leaving a er slight testimonial of his regard in the form of some er innocent refreshments in the hands of his ward, who would er act as er his proxy in their distribution; and the colonel sat down to the flutter of handkerchiefs, an applause only half restrained, and the utter demoralization of Miss Prinkwell.
Indeed, all would have gone well had not Miss Prinkwell, with the view of impressing the colonel as well as her pupils, majestically introduced him as "a distinguished jurist deeply interested in the cause of education, as well as guardian of their fellow pupil." That opportunity was not thrown away on Colonel Starbottle.
"This er unexpected visit," began Miss Tish "not previously arranged by letter" "Which is an invariable rule of our establishment," supplemented Miss Prinkwell "And the fact that you are personally unknown to us," continued Miss Tish "An ignorance shared by the child, who exhibits a distaste for an interview," interpolated Miss Prinkwell, in a kind of antiphonal response
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