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Now to Kathleen the fact of being interviewed by Miss Ravenscroft only caused a sense of annoyance, and unwonted irritation; Ruth was surprised, partly delighted and partly afraid; but Cassandra, whose father had been a teacher, and who lived all her life in the scholastic world, considered it an honor almost too great for words that she should be specially interviewed by so great a person as Miss Ravenscroft.
"I beg of you, therefore, Cassie, to see her and use your influence to induce her, not from quixotic motives, to ruin herself and injure the other girls of the school." "I will do what I can. But Ruth is peculiar. She is, with all her sweetness, very obstinate. Still, I faithfully promise to do what I can." Cassandra left the presence of Miss Ravenscroft and returned to her place in class.
The thing must be put a stop to, and with a high hand; and to show you, my dear, what we mean to do, we have presented an ultimatum to Ruth Craven. She will either tell publicly what she knows of the Wild Irish Girls or be publicly expelled." "Oh, poor Ruth!" said Cassandra. "We are naturally most anxious that such a painful scene should not take place," said Miss Ravenscroft.
Is it true that you have encouraged certain girls in this school " "Oh, I encourage all the girls, I know. Poor things! "Don't interrupt me, Kathleen; I have more to say. Is it true that you encourage certain girls in this school" here Miss Ravenscroft put up her hand to check Kathleen's words "to rebellion and insubordination?"
As long as it is Congreve and Dryden and Otway, of course it is literature, and of a very high order; even Shadwell and Mrs. Behn and Southerne are literature; Settle and Ravenscroft may pass as legitimate literary curiosity. But there are depths below this where there is no excuse but sheer collectaneomania.
Langbain, the charge of plagiarism as properly belonged to Ravenfcroft himself as to Dryden; tho' there was this essential difference between the plagiary of one and that of the other; that Dryden turned whatever he borrowed into gold, and Ravenscroft made use of other people's materials, without placing them in a new light, or giving them any graces, they had not before.
This, however, is not original with Moliere, being entirely borrowed from Le Pedant Joue, Act ii, 4, of Cyrano de Bergerac . What is practically a translation of Les Fourberies de Scapin by Otway, was produced at the Duke's Theatre in 1677, and in the same year Ravenscroft included a great part of it in his Scaramouch a Philosopher, Harlequin a Schoolboy, Bravo, Merchant, and Magician.
I quite like the child myself," said Miss Ravenscroft; "and your opinion of her, Cassie, confirms my own. She told me, too, that you have been extremely kind to her. I quite expect that is the case. But, my dear, the time has come when Ruth will either have to tell us what she knows or to resign her place in the school." Cassandra's face looked troubled.
"What was that, Ruth?" Miss Ravenscroft began by being cold and indifferent; she was now really interested. "You can sit down if you like," she said. But Ruth did not sit; she only put one pretty little hand on the back of a chair as though to steady herself. "I will tell you everything that concerns myself," she said. "I don't mind how badly you think of me.
Miss Ravenscroft turned to the clerk, who went away at once in search of Ruth. Ruth came in looking very white, her face dogged, her usual beauty and charm of manner having quite deserted her. She wore her little school-apron and she kept folding it between her fingers as she stood in the presence of her judges. "Your name?" said Miss Mackenzie. "Ruth Craven." "Your age?" "I am fourteen."
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