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Updated: September 28, 2025
Professional prudence and the memory of certain judiciously smothered escapades caused Miss Euphrosyne at first to retire within her moral breast works and draw up the sally-port bridge. For even in chilly Geneva, young hearts throb in nature's flooding lava passions, jealously bodiced in school-girl buckram and glacial swiss muslin.
I did not "go with" any of the girls, in the school-girl sense of the phrase. I admired some of them, either for good looks, or beautiful manners, or more subtle attributes; but always at a distance.
"I've done everything in the world for her," he cried, "and she had the heart to treat me like this. How cruel, how monstrously cruel!" After two days of misery he received a letter from her. It was written in her school-girl hand. She had always written with difficulty: Dear Bertie: I couldn't stand it any more. I'm going back home. Good-bye. Ethel. She did not say a single word of regret.
"So very young that I should have taken her for a school-girl," added Miss Deane, with a condescending smile that enraged Zoe. "And I take you for an old maid of twenty-five," was her mental retort. "I dare say you'd be glad enough to be as young as I am, and to have such a handsome husband."
She came to meet me, her glittering eyes on my face. "Have you enjoyed your visit?" was the first question she asked. "More than I ever enjoyed anything in my life. You did not tell me what a beautiful neighbor I had at Harden Manor." "I never thought of it," she replied, carelessly. "Agatha Thesiger is only a school-girl."
She awakes in the morning, and finds that school does not keep to-day, no, nor to-morrow! What is to be done? Going and coming, which get to be more going and coming; dish-washing, which daily increases into dish-washing; or ennui, which degenerates into melancholy, ensue. Life is not what the school-girl supposed. Six months of it make her older than a whole school-year.
Well, then, I'm awfully sorry; but then you are so good-natured you tempt one to forget; and my mother she always calls you Wenna Rosewarne now in speaking to me, as if you were a little school-girl, instead of being the chief support and pillar of all the public affairs of Eglosilyan.
If this should befall me in the spring, and I survive the dog, I could retort with a dish of strawberries and a copy of "Lalla Rookh"; if in the fall, with a basket of grapes and Thomson's "Seasons," after which there would be no further exchange of hostilities. The younger daughter, being a school-girl, will occasionally have to be subdued with green apples and salt.
I was quite young then, a mere school-girl in fact, and the friend whom I came to visit was also very young; and both of us were too gay and frolicsome to care much for whatever was strange or startling in our surroundings.
To vary the metaphor, it seemed to him, as she swept up and down, as if the green-room was a shell, and this glorious creature must burst it and be free. Meantime, the others saw a pretty actress studying her business; and Cibber saw a dramatic school-girl learning what he presumed to be a very silly set of words.
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