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Updated: June 7, 2025
'Do you mean seriously to tell me, George, said Miss Delacour, 'that you have called that child Hollyhock that impertinent, rude child, Hollyhock? 'Well, yes, he has, bless his heart! said Hollyhock, going up to her father and fondling his head. 'Isn't he a bit of a sort of a thing that you 'd love? Eh, but he's a grand man. He isn't afflicted with bad looks, Aunt Agnes.
'I couldn't help it, replied Hollyhock, who felt as near to tears as a daughter of the Camerons could be; 'but you see for your own self what Leuchy was before I played my prank, and what she has been since. Now I'm much afraid that all is up, and she 'll never love me any more poor Leuchy!
Oh Leuchy, I would not be so mean! All night long Hollyhock tossed from side to side on her restless couch, thinking and planning how she would perform that feat which would stamp her as the bravest lassie in the school. There was one action which she could perform, one action which was so full of danger that no other girl in the school would attempt it. It was, in short, the following.
He thinks the ease with which they can turn you into things is their most engaging quality. The answer is Fairy me lukka, but though he had often told me this I again forgot the lukka. If I was a hollyhock I should soon wither, David." He himself had provided me with this objection not long before, but now he seemed to think it merely silly.
Lady Leucha was not specially clever, but she was what might be called 'cute, and although during her first week at school she had had no special desire to push herself forward in any way whatsoever, yet now that Hollyhock or, rather, Jack had come, she was fully determined to crush her, if not by guile, then by other means.
If this idea fell through, Mrs Macintyre felt that the mean nature of Meg, joined to the yet meaner nature of Leucha herself, must for the present at least win the day. She had some hope in this plan, but meanwhile her warm heart was full of sorrow for her bonnie Hollyhock. The plan was carried into effect.
The scenery of Skeltdom or, shall we say, the kingdom of Transpontus? had a prevailing character. A botanist could tell it by the plants. The hollyhock was all pervasive, running wild in deserts; the dock was common, and the bending reed; and overshadowing these were poplar, palm, potato tree, and QUERCUS SKELTICA brave growths.
Such a thing was impossible; but nevertheless she loved she loved Hollyhock, with a sort of craving which caused her to long to see the bright glint in her eyes and the bonnie smile round her lips. As for Jasmine, she was less than nothing in Leucha's eyes. Hollyhock, although she would not say it for the world, was all in all to the miserable, proud, silly girl.
Now, then, you will have the goodness to tell the school in as few words as possible how you got that scratch on your hand, and how Hollyhock got her poor face so swollen. 'It was the cat, muttered Leucha. 'The cat! What cat? echoed from end to end of the long room. 'Leucha, hold your head up and tell your story.
Hollyhock was holding the cat, who, in the struggle, gave Leucha a savage scratch on the hand, that lily-white hand of which she was so proud. It was a great scratch going right across the back of the hand. In a moment Leucha had fled from the room to seek Mrs Macintyre.
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