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"I wonder if Claire didn't think that her going would spoil everything. Or if she just didn't care." Priscilla was inclined to favor the latter hypothesis, yet even in her resentment she realized that any amount of criticism of Claire would not save the situation. Vainly the girls grappled with the problem, to end by looking at each other despairingly.
Nothing could be more natural than the proposed arrangement, had it not been made unnatural by a quarrel existing nearly throughout the whole life of the person most nearly concerned. Priscilla, the elder daughter, was the one of the family who was generally the ruler, and she at last expressed an opinion adverse to the arrangement. "My dear, you would never be able to bear it," said Priscilla.
From charming Sally Goode, now married to Tom Peachey, known familiarly as "honest Tom," the editor of the Dinwiddie Bee, to lovely Virginia Pendleton, the mark of Miss Priscilla was ineffaceably impressed upon the daughters of the leading families.
"We want to engage you by the day, to do whatever we tell you." "Cahn't do dat, missy. Got to sell flowers and roses. Sell 'em for de fam'ly, missy." "But in the afternoon you can come," said Corny. "There isn't any selling done then. We'll pay you." "How much?" asked Priscilla. This question was referred to me, and I offered sixpence a day.
"Oh, do put it on!" cried Doris eagerly. Betty held the strings together under her fair round chin. "You look like a queen!" said the child admiringly. "Why it is just as they are wearing them now, the tip-top style. 'Lecty couldn't have described this hat any better if she had seen it. And if I can have it, Aunt Priscilla, I shall not care a bit about feathers. It's beautiful enough without."
Her two or three dresses and jackets were hung tidily away behind the curtain which formed her wardrobe. Priscilla pushed her empty trunk against the wall, folded up the bits of string and paper which lay scattered about, and then, slowly undressing, she got into bed. She undressed with a certain sense of luxuriousness and pleasure.
This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John. And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
Then she would remind her brother Alick that it would be so much better if, instead of wasting his time in playing with silly little tin soldiers, he would try to learn as much as he could before he was sent to school; while she was never tired of quoting to her sister Betty the line, 'Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever! which Betty, quite unjustly, interpreted to mean that Priscilla thought but poorly of her sister's intellectual capacity.
"Hop you out now, Peter," said Priscilla, "and help Mr. Mannix down into the boat. He has a sprained ankle and can't walk by himself. Be careful of him!" The task of getting Frank into the Tortoise was not an easy one for the slip was nearly as slimy as when Priscilla fell on it the day before. Peter, with his arm round Frank's waist, proceeded very cautiously.
A few days later the two came in from class, to find Priscilla and the president of the German Club sitting on the divan with their heads together, frantically turning the leaves of the catalogue. "She isn't a sophomore," the president announced. "She must be a freshman, Priscilla. Look again." "I've gone over this list three times, and there isn't a single Ferris down."
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