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Then, going into her bedroom, Miss Preston quickly made her own toilet. She had just finished it when the chimes called all to dinner, and, stooping over Toinette, she kissed her softly and slipped from the room. Some very serious thoughts passed through Toinette's head during the ensuing fifteen minutes, and some resolutions were formed which were held to as long as she lived.
Ordinarily Toinette's reply would have been as sharp as Cicely's, but this time she just looked at her with her big eyes eyes suspiciously bright, as though tears lay not far back of them and walked away, leaving Cicely to wonder what had come over her. "Well, I never!" was her rather vague comment. "I don't see what has come over Toinette since that last flareup.
Stone knows," and began to dance around in a circle with her ham tightly clasped in one arm, and the crackers scattering from one end of the pantry to the other. Now thoroughly alarmed, and almost in tears, Mrs. Stone said: "Oh, my dear, dear little girl, won't you come back to your room with me?" and, grasping hold of Toinette's arm, endeavored to lead her from the pantry.
Merriton greeted him pleasantly, and 'Toinette's radiant eyes smiled up into his bronzed face. "Have I?" she said, with a little embarrassed laugh. "Well, I have been out riding with Nigel." "Oh, Nigel lives round here, does he?" said Wynne, with a sarcastic laugh. "Like it, old man?" "Oh, I like it well enough," retorted Merriton. "At any rate I'll be obliged to get used to it.
Many had come from other schools, as in Toinette's case, where distrust seemed to be the key-note of the establishment, and then came Miss Preston's severest trials. The confidence of such girls must be won ere a step could be taken in the right direction. It was a rare exception when Miss Preston failed to win it.
It made her angry and unhappy at times that they should do so, but she did not realize that it was in great part her own fault, and so did not set herself to mend it. "Tell me a 'tory," said baby Jeanneton, creeping to her knee a little later. But Toinette's head was full of the elf; she had no time to spare for Jeanneton. "Oh, not to-night," she replied. "Ask mother to tell you one."
Reeve went to bid them farewell and a pleasant voyage, and the last faces those upon the great ship saw as they swung out into the stream were Toinette's and her father's.
Then Miss Preston's eyes began to smile, and her mouth followed their example, and, placing one finger under Toinette's chin, she said: "I am forced to admit that it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen, and extremely well done, but it scared Mrs. Stone nearly to death; so, please, don't favor us with the second act."
The exercises were to take place in the evening, and all day long relatives and friends of the girls arrived thick and fast. Among the first was Toinette's father. "Couldn't wait till evening, you see," he cried, as he met Toinette at the railway station. "Yes, it is all settled; I got them by a lucky chance at the very last moment." "Did you say anything to Mr. Burgess about it?" asked Toinette.
He wheeled at the sound of their footsteps and came forward, his face lighting with pleasure, his hand outstretched. Then he saw Merriton behind 'Toinette's tiny figure, and for a moment some of the pleasure went out of his eyes. "Hello," he said. "However did you get to this part of the world? You always turn up like a bad penny.... What a time you've been 'Toinette!"
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