"Much I cared for that when I had a chance of seeing her," remarked Violet. "I did get a splendid peep. She's awfully tall, and she was splendidly dressed; and O Dolly! O Ruthie! O Janey! she's just lovely!"[Pg 43]"Oh, foolish do you call it?" A passing cloud swept over Bridget O'Hara's face. It quickly vanished, however; she jumped up with a little sigh."Pardon me for disturbing you," she said; "I did not know anyone was in the schoolroom at present."
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"I never knew before that I had an enemy," said Janet, in her guarded voice.[Pg 65]
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"Just play the piece over to me," she said to her master. "I'll do it if you play it over. Yes, that's it—tum, tum, tummy, tum, tum. Oughtn't you to crash the air out a bit there? I think you ought. Yes, that's it—isn't it lovely? Now let me try."
[Pg 18]"She was interceding for Bridget," said Dorothy.
"Did you speak?" asked Miss May in her coldest tones.Janet bent her fair face again over the open page; a faint flush had risen in each of her cheeks.
It is not an easy matter to break in a wild colt, and this was the process which had now to take place with regard to the new girl, whose eccentricities and daring, whose curious mixture of ignorance and knowledge, of affectionate sympathy and careless levity, made her at once the adored and detested of her companions.
"The first thing to do is to appoint a committee," she began.
CHAPTER IV. THE QUEEN OF THE SCHOOL.