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"I thought as much. The child is very unhappy. I take a great very great interest in Ruth, Miss Ravenscroft. She is a most sweet girl; she is a lady placed in a position which a lady should scarcely occupy, but through it all she will never betray the true instincts of her nature." "I am sure of that.
You can tell Miss Ravenscroft, Alice, that my aunt has come to see me, and that I have been obliged to go to town. You can manage it quite easily." Kathleen did not wait for any further discussion, but ran out of the room. "I do wish, mother, you'd try and persuade her," said Alice. "I am sure, whatever her father may be, he can't want her to come to school here to get into endless scrapes.
"I saw Miss Ravenscroft this morning. She told me about you and your position with the governors." "Oh, need we talk of that?" said Ruth coloring, stopping in her walk, and turning to face Cassandra. "Why shouldn't we? I wish you would tell me everything. Why are you going to be so obstinate? But of course you won't be. You will you must change your mind.
"But," said Ruth, disentangling herself from Kathleen's embrace, "you don't mean that Miss Ravenscroft Miss Ravenscroft wanted you to go and see her and you didn't go?" "No, I didn't go. Why should I go? Miss Ravenscroft has nothing whatever to do with me." "Oh, Kathleen! she is your mistress the head-mistress of the Great Shirley School." "Well, and what about that?
He was never a worshipper of any one writer, but always had at least a dozen prophets in whose praise he was enthusiastic. Well, on this Christmas Eve, we had been to see dear old Ravenscroft and his grand-daughter, and we were walking back through the quiet precincts of the Temple, when he said abruptly: "I have decided to go back to Bath to-morrow." "Have you had a worse account?"
So was the head-mistress, Miss Ravenscroft; and also, seated on the same little raised platform, were the six ladies who formed the governors. The governors sat in a little circle, Miss Mackenzie in the middle. Miss Mackenzie looked hard and very firm. Her iron-gray hair, her false teeth, her prominent nose, and her rather cruel steel-gray eyes made themselves felt all down the long room.
It seems scarcely fair, for I must say that I don't like Kathleen. She and I have never got on. It seems scarcely fair that I should be the one to run her to earth." "The fairness or the unfairness of the question is not now to be discussed," said Miss Ravenscroft. She rose as she spoke.
The unanimity and harmony of this entire large place is in danger, and the foundationers are in extreme peril. You perhaps know to what I allude." "I could not be in the school without having heard rumors of a sort of insurrection which seems to be spreading a good deal," said Cassandra. "Of course," said Miss Ravenscroft.
The girls who are rebellious in the school must be exposed; their conduct must be investigated, and a very heavy punishment awarded to them." Here Miss Ravenscroft looked round her. She caught the eye of Miss Mackenzie, who beckoned to her and whispered something in her ear.
Oh, yes, they were having a glorious time; and it was quite right to do what you liked sometimes, and quite right to defy your elders. Oh, how many she was defying: Ruth Craven, who would almost have given her life to keep her back from this; Miss Ravenscroft, the head-mistress, to whom Kathleen's heart did not go out; her own father; her own aunt; Alice Tennant oh, bother Alice Tennant!
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