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Helen spoke slowly. Then at the look of surprise in Hester's eyes, she crossed the room, and sitting down on the arm of her roommate's chair drew Hester's head close against her and held her thus in a tender protective embrace, while she continued. "No, little roommate, I do not believe she will be pleased. I am not. It is fun mere fun, I know.
"I'll sit down, but you must tell me what he was saying to you." "Must I?" "Must you? I should say yes! I am dying to know what he could be saying to a freshman!" Frank was troubled, for he saw his roommate's curiosity was aroused to the highest notch, and he knew it would be no easy thing to satisfy Harry without telling the truth. "Go ahead," urged Rattleton. "What did Pierson say to you?"
I've fairly lived in other people's rooms, so that she'd never find me at home, and that hurt my poor little roommate's feelings, so the other day I had to tell her what the matter was. I've never told any one else I hate people who talk about that sort of thing but I've been just miserable over it, indeed I have! And now it seems worse than ever." Georgia's big brown eyes filled with tears.
If I don't come back within a reasonable length of time you will know that I have been annihilated." Ten minutes went by, then ten more. At the end of half an hour Miriam wondered slightly at her roommate's continued absence. Just before time for the dinner bell to ring, Elfreda burst into the room with: "Miriam, will you help me to dress? I am invited to dinner and this time I am going.
She was beginning to understand her roommate's style of conversation. Miss Wilson was not one to shirk. Work had no terrors for her. She was never idle, but when she was tired with study she found rest in some other form of occupation. Now, while Elizabeth was unpacking, she assisted her in every way, putting in order bureau drawers, and arranging books.
A crowd had gathered to hear Gilly be wrathful about his roommate's latest sins. "He said, 'Oh, I don't like the windows open at night, he said, 'except only a little bit," complained Gilly. "Don't let him boss you." "Boss me? You bet he won't. I open those windows, I guess, but the darn fool won't take turns shuttin' 'em in the morning." "Make him, Gilly, why don't you?" "I'm going to."
She listened gravely and attentively to all that Evelyn told her of Harlowe House and its lucky household, but she volunteered no information concerning herself except a reluctant, "I came from the West," in answer to her roommate's question as to where she lived. The more Evelyn observed her the more attractive she appeared.
Flinging her arms about her roommate's neck, Hester embraced her warmly all the while declaring that she would never be able to repay her. "Yes, you surely can," said Helen. "Play a good game and justify my recommending you. That will please me best of all." "I shall do that for your sake, for my own, and for the team's."
"Greg," rejoined Dick, laying an affectionate hand on his roommate's shoulder, "as long as I'm a new plebe I don't intend to try to dig out of any fight that an upper class man demands from me. Perhaps I could get the scrap committee to turn down Mr. Spurlock's desire but I don't mean to do anything of the sort. I did all that I felt I could do consistently to stop the fight.
And I have an extra blue tie that you can have it needs a tie. But I thought you'd manage to get an excuse from gym, when you hate it so." "Perhaps I shan't hate it this year," ventured Helen, and neither then nor later did Betty exactly understand her roommate's sudden devotion to parallel bars, ropes, the running track, and breathing exercises.
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