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As she was doing so, flaunting her pretty little person in a somewhat aggressive way and causing some prim-looking ladies to gaze at her with anything but approval, a hand was laid on her arm, and turning she saw, to her amazement, the extremely indignant faces of Miss Sherrard and Miss Worrick. "Well, Kitty, after this!" said Miss Sherrard,
Sherrard saw that Dorise's attitude was one of hostility, but with his superior overbearing manner he pretended not to notice it. "You were not at Lady Oundle's the night before last," he remarked, for want of something better to say. "I went there specially to meet you, Dorise." "I hate Lady Oundle's dances," was the girl's reply. "Such a lot of fearful old fogies go there."
I'm Sherrard Plumer! I sold the last portrait I painted for $2,000. After that I couldn't have found a sitter for a gratis picture." "What was the trouble?" Chalmers could not resist asking. "Funny thing," answered Plumer, grimly. "Never quite understood it myself. For a while I swam like a cork. I broke into the swell crowd and got commissions right and left.
What I have really come about is this: It is necessary for Elma to have a certificate from her present mistress in order to be admitted into the very first-class school in Germany where I propose to place her. Will you kindly give me a testimonial in my niece's favor, Miss Sherrard? Just say anything you can to the credit of her character and general attainments.
Are you for Kitty, or against her?" "How do you mean?" asked Alice in some wonder. "I mean, are you going to vote that this petition should be sent to Miss Sherrard or are you not?" "I am going to vote against it, of course," said Alice, with a short laugh. "Well, I am on your side; I wish to say so." "You, Elma! I thought you would never oppose Gwin Harley.
She was thinking of Hugh's strange disappearance, and how he had broken his word to her. Meanwhile, Lady Ranscomb, secretly very glad that Hugh had been prevented from accompanying them, and centring all her hopes upon her daughter's marriage with George Sherrard, sat chattering with a Mrs. Down, the fat wife of a war-profiteer, whose acquaintance she had made in Paris six months before.
The result of this was that all the girls were summoned to appear in the great central hall. When there they were told very briefly Miss Sherrard standing by her desk as she spoke that Miss Malone was in disgrace. "Miss Malone has done something which obliges me to put her into Coventry for a week," said the head-mistress. "Her schoolfellows are forbidden to have any intercourse with her.
"You would not like him to take you from the school now," said Elma, "just when you have such a good chance of the literature scholarship?" "I should think not; it would be a dreadful blow. But he would be oh, I cannot tell you how shocked he would be!" "And he would be more shocked, would he not, if he heard that you had taken Kitty's part, and had signed the petition against Miss Sherrard?"
Dorise was in no mood to lunch with her mother's visitor, but, nevertheless, was compelled to be polite. After washing their hands in the stream, they sat down together upon a great, grey boulder that had been worn smooth by the action of the water, and, taking out their sandwiches, began to eat them. "Oh, I say!" exclaimed Sherrard suddenly, after they had been gossiping for some time.
"I wonder if that dreadful girl is to go unpunished in the end," said Miss Worrick to Miss Sherrard, as they both slowly went to the nearest hotel to wait until the time arranged to meet Kitty and her father at the Sign of the Red Doe." "It seems like it," said Miss Sherrard. "But what a splendid old man! Perhaps after all it may be the best thing for Kitty Malone not to punish her, Miss Worrick."
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