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"Where's Fraulein?" "Fraulein's going to drive Vic over to the Partridges' for luncheon, and I promised Swann I'd talk to him about favors and things for tomorrow night." "Well busy Lizzie! And what have I to do?" Margaret reached for a well-filled date-book. "You were to decide about those alterations, the porch and dining room, you know," said she.
It had been nothing at school all the girls standing in the drill-room, rows of voices saying "adsum," then a Collect and the Lord's Prayer. A huge Bible appeared on a table in front of Fraulein's high-backed chair. Miriam found herself ranged with the girls, sitting in an attentive hush.
Miriam flushed, struggling for self-possession. She determined not to listen.... "Damn... Devil..." she exhorted herself... "humbugging creature..." She felt the blood throbbing in her face and her eyes and looked at no one. She was conscious that little movements and sounds came from the Germans, but she heard nothing but Fraulein's voice which had ceased.
Heretofore the concrete which was available for this purpose required at least a fortnight of exposure before it was sufficiently firm and hardened; but when Fraulein Bertha Krupp's engineers escorted the Fraulein's newest and most impressive steel masterpiece to the war, they brought along with them the ingredients for a new kind of concrete; and those who claim to have been present on the occasion declare that within forty-eight hours after they had mixed and molded it, it was ready to bear the weight of the guns and withstand the shock of their recoil.
But I went about it in a very cunning way, I did not want to ask straight out, and so I said: Can you tell me who that white-haired old gentleman is, he is so awfully like my Grandfather. But I expect Fraulein's Grandfather is not quite so grumpy." I said: "Is he so frightfully grumpy then?" And she answered: "I should think so; we must all jump at the word go or it's all up with us!"
She made us feel as if we were infants; said she thought smothering in a trunk for an hour was punishment enough for anybody. She just talked!" "And talked!" Peggy added. "She said that we'd so wrecked Fraulein's nerves Peg and I that Fraulein was leaving the school wasn't coming back after Easter." "Really? Is that true, Peggy?" "That we've wrecked her nerves? Hardly.
"You haven't read 'The Scottish Chiefs'? I took it without permission and kept it out of Fräulein's sight. It grows light early now, you know, and I read it for hours before getting up. Then whenever I could, I read it in the daytime. And after they had left me at night, I read it with the pink candles of my birthday cake.
With the full force of her nerves she resisted the echoes of Fraulein's onslaught, refusing to think of anything she had said and blotting out her image every time it rose. The essential was that she would be dismissed as Mademoiselle had been dismissed. That was the upshot of it all for her. Fraulein was a mad, silly, pious female who would send her away and go on glowering over the Bible.
We used to say: "Now then, Florence, go on tell us Fraulein's love-story!" and she would clear her throat, and cough, and say "It was a glorious summer afternoon in the little village of Eisenach, and the sunshine peering down through the leaves turned to gold the tresses of young Elsa Behrend as she sat knitting under the trees."
"DEAR AUNT LUCINDA: Will you please come up at once. Carita is sick. The doctor doesn't know yet what's the matter with her, he can't tell for forty-eight hours, " "Miss Ashe!" Fraulein's stentorian tones rang out sharply. Blue Bonnet looked up, startled. "What haf you there, Miss Ashe? This is a time for study, not for the writing of letters." Blue Bonnet remained silent.
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