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"Lena has a brother at school at Sylvandale. Percy Neville! Can it be that our Percy is your young cavalier, Miss Trevor?" "Percy Neville," repeated Miss Trevor, "yes, indeed, that is his name, name, yes, name. Is it possible he is your brother?" turning to Lena with a face now radiant with pleasure at this discovery. "Ah! such a boy, boy, indeed, boy!"
Repeating herself over and over again, she related, in such a confused manner, the story of her encounter with Hannah, and of how the latter had entrusted her with the money for Percy; of how she had intended to return to Sylvandale at once when she had accepted the trust, but had been persuaded by her friends to remain in the city until after Easter, and how she, mindful of the task she had undertaken, and not knowing where she could find Hannah to inform her of the change in her plans, had sent the money by post; but, as she assured Mrs.
And he wondered as he spoke if he should ever bring any of his possessions back there again, whether, with this cloud, this suspicion of a possible betrayal of his trust resting upon him, he should ever return to Sylvandale school. "But " stammered Charlie, "I mean Seabrooke somebody put something there. I I saw him but he did not see me here. He's playing you a trick, I know. Do look."
She had heard of swindlers pretending to know of places and people belonging to those whom they would victimize; and had not Hannah's hold upon her been firm she would have wrenched herself free and fled. Hannah repeated her question in a rather different form and with an addition. "Do you come from Sylvandale? And you maybe know Dr. Leacraft's school?
The bare idea of such a thing was enough to lend wings of terror to Miss Trevor's feet; and she was about to dart away from Hannah's side when the hand of the latter in its turn arrested her, giving, if possible, new force to the fears of the old lady. "What did I come for?" she ejaculated, "yes, come. I wish I was back in Sylvandale yes, Sylvandale, indeed, 'dale." "Sylvandale!"
"But are flocks of geese allowed to wander loose in the streets of Utica, Miss Trevor?" asked Mrs. Rush. "I thought it was too much of a place for that." "Oh, no, my dear not Utica, no indeed, not Utica did you not know? We moved, yes, moved, a year ago, yes, 'go, to Sylvandale, yes, Sylvandale yes, 'dale," said Miss Trevor. "Sylvandale! Neville!" said Mrs. Rush.
But her unworthy suspicions of that good person were speedily put to flight by the mention of Percy Neville's name. Coming up the village street of Sylvandale one day, she had been chased by a flock of geese, and as she was hurrying along as fast as her age and infirmities permitted anything in the shape of dignity she had cast to the winds before such foes she encountered some of Dr.
Perceiving this, Miss Trevor believed that it was caused not only by surprise at seeing her there when she had told Hannah that she expected to return at once to Sylvandale, but also by the fear that the money had not reached its destination in good time, and she hastened to relieve her, thus bringing on the disclosures which Hannah was dreading. "Good morning," she said, kindly.
There's lots of time yet, and I'm not going to send you home faint and miserable to your mother, and have her say there's nobody at Sylvandale Academy to look after her head-ache-y boy." And she was gone, while Charlie, nothing loth, obeyed orders and lay almost motionless. Suddenly quick footsteps came along the hall, and the door of the room, which Mrs.
It seemed now as if nothing could "come out," as the boys said, there was so little time for any investigation, for the pupils, none of whom lived at more than a few hours distance from Sylvandale, were to leave by the afternoon trains. The morning lessons were to continue as usual, but those for the after part of the day were to be dispensed with.
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