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Updated: June 14, 2025
She got up without saying more, and followed her out into the hall, but at the foot of the staircase she stopped. "I have not seen Tod," she said. "Let us go into 'Toinette's room and ask her to let us have him to-night. We can carry him up-stairs without wakening him. I have done it many a time. I should like to have him in my arms to-night." So they turned into Mrs.
These are serious confidences for me to burden you with, Toinette, but you have crept into a very warm corner of my heart since you became a pupil here, and I know that there is a wise little head upon these shoulders," said Miss Howard, as she placed her hand on Toinette's shoulder. The girl reached up, and drawing the hand close to her cheek held it there, but did not speak.
So nearly every afternoon the team could be seen bounding about like so many marionettes, and if touseled hair and demoralized attire resulted, what did it matter? Rosy cheeks and ravenous appetites were excellent compensations. It was the fifteenth of April, and Toinette's birthday.
The old woman nodded her head mysteriously and leaned forward, putting her gnarled hand on Toinette's round knee and peering with her faded eyes into the girl's wild-flower face. "It is the word," said she, "that death speaks before he crosses the threshold. He gives a sign sometimes one thing, and sometimes another before he comes in.
Like her father's, Toinette's taste was unerring, and when she said: "Wouldn't it be pretty to have the girls represent flowers?" Miss Howard was delighted with the idea. "What flowers would you suggest, dear?" she asked. "Let me think just a moment, please," said Toinette, and she rested her chin upon her hands, a favorite attitude of hers when thinking seriously of anything.
No one wished to see him condemned as guilty save those few who seemed determined to send him to the gallows. Three or four possible witnesses were called, but nothing of any importance was gleaned from them; then Borkins was summoned to the table. As he pushed past 'Toinette's chair from the knot of villagers which surrounded him, his face was white, and his lips compressed.
Walk down to my room with me, please," and she slipped her arm about the girl's waist. No more was needed, and all the suspicion and rebellion in Toinette's nature rose up to do battle with windmills. It was a hard young face that looked defiantly at Miss Preston.
With Mère 'Toinette's gift in her Camp Fire knapsack and with Jean's flower thrust into her belt, Sally then made a fresh start. She had not thought of going far, as the roads and fields were in too disagreeable a condition. Pausing about an eighth of a mile from the farm house, she considered whether after all it were worth while to remain out of doors.
Be prompt." The porter carried the big box to Toinette's room and removed the lid for her. Such an array! I'm not going to attempt to tell about it, but shall let every girl who has ever attended a chum's birthday feast mention the articles of which that feast consisted, and then, after combining the entire list, they can form some idea of the contents of Toinette's box.
"And at poor Sultana's fur," added Peggy, pointing to the tuft upon the floor and slightly shrugging her shoulders. "She deserved it for scratching Toinette's nose." "I'm afraid the scratch was the second move in the onslaught."
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