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Another baby was added to our family in May, 1862, whose mother died at her birth. This little one stayed with us only seventeen months, and was a great happiness to me; then Sir James Brooke took her to England. However, it was a pleasant chapter as long as it lasted. Julia, one of our original school-girls, became very useful to me at this time.
It was pleasanter to see these country people in their carts, school-girls with plaits down their backs, rosy children in perambulators and an exceedingly handsome man on a fine black horse, a fair man, bronzed like a soldier, riding as though he had done it all his life. She looked at him with admiration for his looks and envy for his possessions, for that horse, that somewhat sulky ease.
She seemed to rally from it as she moved down the aisle. Ghostly faces were smiling at her out of the air on either side, and the choir in the gallery behind the school-girls were singing the psalm, with John the Clerk's husky voice drawling out the first word of each new verse as his companions were singing the last word of the preceding one
Very rough and faulty, but so funny, that it was evident Polly's sense of humor was strong. A few pages farther back came Fanny and Mr. Frank, caricatured; then grandma, carefully done; Tom reciting his battle-piece; Mr. Shaw and Polly in the park; Maud being borne away by Katy; and all the school-girls turned into ridicule with an unsparing hand.
Who's going to the hotel?" cried the school-girls, in a chorus. "I am," said Dr. Carr, putting his head in at the door, with a smile which captivated every girl there. "Come, Katy; come, Clover. I've decided that you sha'n't begin school till to-morrow." "Oh, my! Don't I wish he was my pa!" cried Rose Red. Then the stage moved on. "Who are they? What's their name?" asked the girls.
I hesitated to repress this outbreak as it deserved, till Eunané's bitter mortification was evident in her brightening colour and the doubtful, half-appealing glance of tearful eyes. Then a rebuke, such as might have been appropriately addressed yesterday to these rude school-girls by their governess, at once silenced them.
"We vowed eternal friendship," sighed the Countess Wielopolska, "but since we were happy school-girls, six years have gone by, and fearful tragedies have arisen to darken our lives and embitter our young hearts." "Pshaw!" said the lady, casting admiring glances at herself in the mirror. "I do not know why these years should be so sad to you.
I have considerable doubt that any good purpose could be answered by this public appeal to the emulation of a parcel of school-girls; but I have no doubt at all that abundant seeds of vanity, self-love, and love of display, were sown by it, which bore their bad harvest many a long year after.
I know something about it, and these children are more expansible even than school-girls." "I was surprised to meet a gentleman down there who says he has come across on purpose for the wedding." "A gentleman come for the wedding?" and both girls eyed him as pictured terriers greet the word "Rats!" "I'll give you three guesses." "Mr. Pixley," said Miss Penny. "Bull's-eye first shot! Clever girl!"
They laughed together like a couple of school-girls. Hearing and seeing this, the prince smiled happily, and in accents of relief and joy, he exclaimed "Well, thank God thank God!" Alexandra now joined in, and it looked as though the three sisters were going to laugh on for ever. "They are insane," muttered Lizabetha Prokofievna. "Either they frighten one out of one's wits, or else "
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