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Updated: June 4, 2025
"Aunt Raby always lies on the sofa in the evenings now," burst from Hattie the irrepressible. Miss Peel rushed after the plump little girl and pushed her out of the room. "To bed, all of you!" she exclaimed. "To bed and to sleep! Now, Prissie, you are not to mind a word that child says. Come into the drawing-room and let us have a few words quietly.
'Ah, you will know me better some day, dear, was the gentle response. 'Well, at all events, I think you might be naughty just now and then, Prissie, and give Cathie and me a half-holiday. 'I would do anything else to please you, dear, but not that; you must not ask me to do what is impossible.
What she did, however, was to gratify Prissie immensely by hurrying on with her companion, so that she and Hammond were left comfortably in the background. "I don't quite know what you mean," he said stiffly. "What can you possibly have of importance to say to me?" "I don't want Maggie to hear," repeated Prissie in her earnest voice.
You will tell a very different story after you have had tea with Dorothea this evening. Now, let us come and look at the notice-boards and see what the day's program is. By the way, are you going to attend any lectures this morning?" "Yes, two," said Prissie "one on Middle History, from eleven to twelve, and I have a French lecture afterward." "Well, I am not doing anything this morning.
The moment he caught sight of her face, he forgot everything else in his distress at the expression of misery which it wore. "Where are you going, Miss Peel?" he asked; "you appear to be flying from something, or, perhaps, it is to something. Must you run? See, you have almost knocked me down." He chose light words on purpose, hoping to make Prissie smile. "I am going for a walk," she said.
Anyhow, it has vanished, and that is all I have to say. Come, Prissie, I want to hear what Miss Heath said to you last night." "No," suddenly exclaimed Annie Day, "Miss Peel, you must not leave the room just now. You have made a statement, Miss Oliphant, which I for one do not intend to pass over without at least asking a few questions. You did not tear up that note in a dream.
"How stupid of me to have mistaken the hour!" she exclaimed. Then looking hard at Prissie, she continued in an anxious tone: "You are not going to attend any lectures this afternoon, are you, Miss Peel?" "No," answered Priscilla. "Why?" Rosalind's blue eyes looked almost pathetic in their pleading. "I wonder" she began; "I am so worried, I wonder if you'd do me a kindness."
She admired Rosalind, but in her heart of hearts she thought that her friend had played Prissie a very shabby trick. She brought Prissie some tea, therefore, and stood for a moment or two by her side, trying to make things a little more comfortable for her. Some one soon claimed her attention, however, and poor Prissie found herself alone. THE fun and talk rose fast and furious.
"Well, let breakfast warm you and and a small dose of the tonic of sympathy, if I may dare to offer it." Priscilla turned her eyes full upon Miss Oliphant. "Do you mean it?" she said in a choked kind of voice. "Is that quite true what you said just now?" "True? What a queer child! Of course it is true. What do you take me for? Why should not I sympathize with you?" "I want you to," said Prissie.
One or two friends are dropping in presently, and the Beechers and one or two more are upstairs now. You know the Beechers, don't you, Rosalind? Here, Miss Peel, let me help you to unburden yourself. Little Rose is so nimble in her ways that she doesn't need any assistance." "Oh, but indeed I can't stay," said Prissie. "It is quite impossible! You know, Miss Merton, it is impossible.
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