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Updated: September 5, 2025
One morning in early March, she absented herself from her place in the class-room without even taking leave of her beloved schoolgirls, whom she had tried so hard unobtrusively to train up towards a rational understanding of the universe around them, and sat down to write a final letter of farewell to poor straight-laced kind-hearted Miss Smith-Waters.
The Princess laughed, and as they now stood together on the balcony she put out her hands, pushed Jennie gently into the rocking-chair again, seating herself jauntily on its broad arm, and thus the two looked like a pair of mischievous schoolgirls, home at vacation time, thoroughly enjoying their liberty. "There! You are now my prisoner, about to be punished for flattery," cried the Princess.
"You said you were such an ignorant creature I thought I would try you with an easy book, by way of introduction." The Terror was not confused by her apparent self-contradiction. "I meant what I said, and I mean what I say. When I talk about my ignorance, I don't measure myself with schoolgirls, doctor. I don't measure myself with my teachers, either.
"You dance like an angel, and we fit splendidly," and Hennie Penny found a man's arm about her decidedly and delightfully more inspiriting than all the arms of all the schoolgirls in the world, and danced as she had never danced before. So swift and light and smooth and graceful was their flight that before long the rest tailed off and all stood propped against the walls to watch them.
The young schoolmaster could talk to Miss Letty: it was his business to know how to talk to schoolgirls. Dick would amuse himself with his cousin Elsie. The old Doctors only wanted to be well fed and they would do well enough. It would be very pleasant to describe the tea-table; but in reality, it did not pretend to offer a plethoric banquet to the guests.
They felt a keen elation at having penetrated this mysterious house they were as happy as schoolgirls at the thought of having infringed the commonly accepted rules of good society in coming here. As they entered one room of the house Elena exclaimed: "What a strange room!" "A magic room," said Trirodov with a smile.
In the meantime there was to be a vast business of runnings and stitchings, of old women beating eggs and sifting flour, of schoolgirls writing "MARY BLAKE" on forbidden walls with stolen chalk. Dear me! You might think Mary and Joshua would have rebelled. Curiously, they seemed beyond rebelling. Joshua, especially, was a changed man.
A greedy woman is the exception; and yet all schoolgirls know the temptation to over-eating produced by a box of goodies from home, or the stronger temptation, after a school-term has ended, to ravage all cake-boxes and preserve-jars. Then comes the pill or powder, and the habit of going to them for a relief which if no excess had been committed, would have been unnecessary.
He has been so very kind about ponies and jhampanies and things. Simla is full of pitfalls for a stranger, don't you think? And Miss Anderson, unclosing her fan, turned her reposeful head a little in the direction of three married schoolgirls voluble on her left. 'Not when you get to know the language. You must learn the language; it's indispensable.
"She is extremely pretty, you know, and that goes a long way." "Not with me, thank goodness!" said Alice. "In fact, I almost hate her face. I detest people who are always grinning and smiling and showing themselves off. My opinion is that schoolgirls ought to be modest, and attentive to their books, and not thinking of giving themselves airs. But there! no one agrees with me.
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