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"Your cheeks didn't look like soapbubbles." "Yes, they did. They looked horrid, I know." "But the picture is so," urged Daisy quietly. "You want to be like the picture." "No I don't. Not that picture. I would like to be something handsome. I don't like that picture." Daisy was silent, and Nora pouted. "What are you going to be, Daisy?" said Ella Stanfield. "I am going to be Priscilla.

I've been working for an hour blowing soapbubbles and trying to pin them on a clothes line in the nursery to dry! Perseverence didn't cut much of a figure in her case, did it?" finished Heavy, with a chuckle. The crowd of girls was in the big "quartette" room in the West Dormitory of Briarwood Hall. The school had reopened only a week before, but all the friends were hard at work.

"Your cheeks didn't look like soapbubbles." "Yes, they did. They looked horrid, I know." "But the picture is so," urged Daisy, quietly. "You want to be like the picture." "No, I don't. Not that picture. I would like to be something handsome. I don't like that picture." Daisy was silent, and Nora pouted. "What are you going to be, Daisy?" said Ella Stanfield. "I am going to be Priscilla.

There stood white lilies with blood-red stamina, skyblue tulips, which shone as they waved in the winds, and apple-trees, the apples of which looked exactly like large soapbubbles: so only think how the trees must have sparkled in the sunshine!

They had been practising "Alfred in the neat-herd's cottage;" Nora had been called upon to be the girl blowing the burnt cakes; she had done it, and everybody had laughed, but the little lady was not pleased. "I know I look horrid!" she said to Daisy, "puffing out my cheeks till they are like a pair of soapbubbles!" "But soapbubbles are not that colour," said Daisy.

They had been practising "Alfred in the neatherd's cottage;" Nora had been called upon to be the girl blowing the burnt cakes; she had done it, and everybody had laughed, but the little lady was not pleased. "I know I look horrid!" she said to Daisy, "puffing out my cheeks till they are like a pair of soapbubbles!" "But soapbubbles are not that colour," said Daisy.