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When supper-time came Marjory gave her uncle an account of the day's doings, but did not mention her encounter in the wood. "You've had a most exciting day, on the whole," he said. "I didn't know you could box, though; surely Miss Waspe doesn't teach you that as an accomplishment!" Marjory laughed rather shamefacedly. "No," she replied; "Peter showed me, but only a little.
Now," brightly, "I've got a great piece of news for you. Miss Waspe writes that she would be very glad to have an extra week's holidays till the eighteenth of September. What do you say?" Blanche clapped her hands. "Oh, how jolly! a whole week more to do as we like! Do let her have it, mother." Mrs. Forester laughed. "Yes, I think we must let her have it.
Miss Waspe had a way of dressing up hard facts and tiresome rules in the most attractive clothing, and like the dog who unconsciously and gratefully swallows a pill in a succulent tit-bit, her pupil assimilated both with excellent results. Blanche said to Marjory one day, "I can't think how you can like that horrid grammar.
Think of Napoleon, and Moltke, and that dear German Emperor Wilhelm the old one, I mean. Miss Waspe said she saw the Kaiser Wilhelm and General Moltke once when she was in Germany, and her recollection of them is that neither of them was big; and anyway," she added consolingly, "you're only fourteen, and you may grow a bit yet." So Alan took comfort, for he had a high opinion of Marjory's wisdom.
"I want to know whether it is ever right to tell a lie, or a kind of a one, for the sake of somebody else." And she blushed very red. Miss Waspe looked at her in surprise. Marjory had always seemed to her to be so absolutely straightforward and honest that she could not understand the reason for such a question.
You are to learn everything that she does, including French and music," with a smile at the recollection of her battle against the doctor's prejudices. A breathless "oh" was all that Marjory could say. Mrs. Forester continued, "Blanche has a very good, kind governess. Unfortunately, she has rather an ugly name, and it may make you smile. It is Waspe W, a, s, p, e not pretty, is it?
Forester and Miss Waspe were gradually suggesting these new ideas to the girl, more perhaps by example than by precept. Marjory followed Miss Maud into church. She did not much like the look of her, she decided. Waspy had said one must never judge hastily of people, but she did not feel that she was going to like this girl; even her back view looked stuck-up!
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