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If, on the other hand, she exhibits the most admirable self-control, and sets him an example which ought to make him ashamed of himself, he has seen a bad sign, and he will do well to remember it. Miss Wigger's self-control put Herbert Linley in the wrong, before she took the trouble of noticing what he had said.
"That I will!" He was surprised by the fervor with which the girl answered him. Absolutely without vanity, he had no suspicion of the value which his winning manner, his kind brown eyes, and his sunny smile had conferred on his little gift of money. A handsome man was an eighth wonder of the world, at Miss Wigger's school.
"I have taken the liberty of calling," he said, "in answer to an advertisement. May I ask" he paused, and took out a newspaper from the pocket of his overcoat "If I have the honor of speaking to the lady who is mentioned here?" He opened the newspaper, and pointed to the advertisement. Miss Wigger's eyes rested not on the passage indicated, but on the visitor's glove.
Wigger's red wig he was the engrossing clerk the lifelessness of the atmosphere of the place, as if nothing real ever happened there, and as if the cases we prepared and tried were of interest only on account of the legal points involved. When I was there, filing papers in their dusty packages, I used to feel as though I was fumbling among the dust of clients long since dead and gone.
"You never did know, and you never will know, how to manage children." She advanced. The child threw herself shrieking on the floor. Miss Wigger's long arms caught her up held her shook her. "Be quiet, you imp!" It was needless to tell her to be quiet. Syd's little curly head sank on the schoolmistress's shoulder. She was carried into exile without a word or a cry she had fainted. The School.
Linley turned on the wretch with a mind divided between wonder and disgust. "Good God, what has she done to deserve being treated in that way?" he asked. Miss Wigger's mouth widened; Miss Wigger's forehead developed new wrinkles. To own it plainly, the schoolmistress smiled.
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