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"Don't you dare 'holy' me!" she threatened. In real irritation Helene released herself. "I'm no chorus girl," she said coldly. With a little shrill scream of pain Rae Malgregor's hands went flying back to her temples. Like a person giving orders in a great panic she turned authoritatively to her two room-mates, her fingers all the while boring frenziedly into her temples.
They knew it had started on the side of the corridor where Amy Gregg had roomed. They might soon suspect the truth. "If they do, good-bye to all little Gregg's peace of mind!" Ruth thought, for she knew just how cruel girls can be, and Amy did not readily make friends. Although Ruth and her room-mates tried to make the flaxen-haired girl feel at home at Mrs.
Only bit by bit did Laura dig out their meaning: then, the horrible truth lay bare. Chinky had been dismissed privately because she was a boarder from the school. Her crime was: she had taken half-a-sovereign from the purse of one of her room-mates.
Already in the daily record of the sixteen-year-old girl we find the little turns and twinkles of phrase which make Mrs. Kingsley's books such good reading. Wellesley College, September 18th., 1876. I haven't had time to write in this journal since I came. There is so much to do here all the time. Besides, I have changed rooms and room-mates.
Eleanor and Anne rapped again and again for admission, but Barbara was obdurate about her right of possession. When she finally opened the door for her room-mates, they stared at her in amused surprise. "Your hair looks all sizzly, Bob," said Eleanor. "Oh, Bob, remove some of that carmine from your lips!" advised Anne. "Why?" demanded Barbara. "Too much of it, that's all!" giggled Eleanor.
Only a few gruff sentences had ever escaped the murderer on the long voyage, and only a horrible curse had answered the proposition of Atwater and McNerney that a full confession might, in some way, soften the brute's impending doom. The room where Braun was confined was bare of all lethal implements with which he might effect a suicide, and two stalwart men were his room-mates.
I think of an illustration to prove my point: In business two men may be closely associated. They may be room-mates besides; chums, perhaps, at the same club; may borrow money from each other and wear each other's clothes; and yet, so far as any purely confidential relation touching on the private sides of their lives is concerned, may remain as far apart as the poles.
He had often urged me to accommodate him as an opponent, but I had steadily refused. On learning of my plight, he laughed loudly. So did my other room-mates as they learned of it. That night, before "taps," I bound myself to an arrangement by which I was to pay my room-mate two-thirds of my regimental pay per week for instruction in handling the gloves. He gave me an hour each night for six weeks.
All but Ann Hicks and Nettie Parsons hoped to graduate the coming June. In the group, besides Ruth and Helen, were their room-mates, Mercy Curtis and Ann Hicks; Jennie Stone; Mary Cox, the red-haired girl usually called "The Fox;" and Nettie Parsons, "the sugar king's daughter," as she was known to the school.
His other room-mates, including his neighbour Penworthy, were so far convalescent as to be up and away, presumably by the life-giving sea, whose rhythmic murmur he could hear. For the first time since he awoke to find himself bandaged up in a strange dug-out, and surrounded by strange faces, did the chaos of his ideas resolve itself into anything like definite memories.
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