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There is some mystery afoot, and Miss Ravenscroft has got wind of it. I know she has, because I have heard it from one or two of the girls." "But what mystery? What can you mean?" said Mrs. Tennant. "I don't know myself," said Alice, "but it has something to do with Kathleen and a curious influence she has over the foundation girls. I know Kathleen isn't popular with the mistresses."
She was to go to speak to Miss Ravenscroft in that lady's parlor. "Miss Ravenscroft is waiting," said the mistress who brought Kathleen the message. "Will you be quick, Kathleen, as she is rather in a hurry?" Kathleen got up with apparent alacrity. Her face looked sunshiny and genial.
"We will defer the subject of Kathleen O'Hara until I have the pleasure of speaking to her," she said then. "But now, as you are here, I should like to ask you a few questions." "Yes." "What you say, Alice Tennant, will not be I speak in judicial phrase" here Miss Ravenscroft gave vent to a faint smile "used against you. I should like to have what information you can give me.
p. 94 Mr. E.R. i.e. Edward Ravenscroft. p. 99 Forty One. cf. note, Vol. p. 99 no Plot was true. A patent allusion to the fictitious Popish Plot. p. 99 Conventicles. For the accentuated last syllable, vide Vol. I, p. 454. A striking example of this accentuation occurs in a Collection of Loyal Songs 1639-1661
She is in the third remove," replied Miss Ravenscroft, looking with kindly eyes at the child. Ruth just glanced at her teacher, and then lowered her eyes. Her beautiful little face was beginning to have its usual effect upon most of the ladies present. Some of the stony despair had left it; the color came and went in her cheeks.
"Do, Ruth, for my sake," pleaded Kathleen, tears in her eyes. "No, Kathleen, not even for your sake. And I think," added Ruth, "that you ought to come with me. It would be much better for you to see Miss Ravenscroft in the morning and explain matters to her." "Nonsense!" said Kathleen, now speaking with decided temper. "That is my affair.
Her opinion was asked by anxious mothers and fathers and guardians. The girls whom she took into her own house and helped with her own counsel were thought the luckiest in England. Even Alice, who was reckoned a good girl as good girls go, had never before come in personal contact with Miss Ravenscroft.
This child in appearance is one of Nature's ladies, but we must get her to see things in the right light, and if necessary she must be made an example of. It will be very painful, but it must be done." "I will do what I can," said Miss Ravenscroft; "but from the little I have seen of Ruth, I imagine she would go to the stake before she would betray those who are kind to her.
If they do, my orders are that they take no apparent notice of them, but write down the names of all present. If that can be done, and you are successful in finding the girls, we shall have the matter, as it were, in a nutshell, and we shall soon crush this disgraceful rebellion." "And what about Kathleen?" asked Miss Ravenscroft. "There is very little doubt that she will have to be expelled.
I must consult with the other teachers. It may even be necessary to call a meeting of the Board of Governors. Your conduct requires stringent measures. But, my child" and here Miss Ravenscroft changed her voice to one of gentleness and entreaty "you will not be so silly, so wicked, so perverse. Kathleen, it is sometimes a hard thing to give up your own way, but I think an Irish girl can be noble.
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