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Dorothy Dainty at Glenmore

Chapter 2 THE FIRST SOCIAL

Word Count: 2759    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

. Dainty and Aunt Charlotte assured them that the dear travelers were well,

girls to enjoy as a sitting-room and study, from which led a tastefu

n were snugly settled in cozy quarters a few doors beyond the one that bore Dorothy's and Nancy's na

ite is

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t know that. After her usual manner of doing things, she had ordered a veritable placard of the vill

other girls see that, they'll think the

-loud?" ventured

a's eye

l, what do you want? A

rabella said quickly, to

t. It's more than all ri

regarding any matter of mutual interest, it was always Patricia who s

contrary streak, but she always feared offending Patricia,

gaudy lettering when a door at t

oor and standing close to it waited to hear

ame the

ithout seeing it?

ust look

lar sig

ering, then one giggled, and together they walked

that red-haired girl, and the black-haired one th

he world were t

big card, I suppo

y. "It cost ever so much more than the teenty little cards on

ly could see that the lettering was showy," she contin

know?" Ara

d we'll look at it

caused Arabella to stop in

whispered Patricia. "If I though

than the first brought both girls to thei

red at them thr

answer my first

w it was you,"

s place with only your names upon it, and in regard to your efforts to obtain work, you can not have any such notice u

u mean!" cried Patric

to a line penciled on the lower

and men

onable

ied Arabella, "and we don

stopped at the door and did something, and then went down stairs laughin

to the writing, I'll look into that. In the meantime I'll

ut of hearing, Patricia vowed vengeance upon the

en with them

you?" Arab

you'd better believe I'

, too!" cri

ttle informal reception on an evening of t

asses present so that those who never met in

d upon the bulletin board it

friends, and were eager to meet others w

so many pleasant faces in the big class-room. I saw at least a dozen I'd like to know, when

irls told me to-day that there's almost sure to be some music, either vocal or instrumental,

he class-room, when Patrici

ia asked, adding: "I hope it is, because I sh

e was no time for either Dorothy or Nancy to repl

the room a group of girls stood talking. It was evident that the theme of their conversation was not engrossing, for twice their leader, Betty Chase, had replied at random while

y. "You know very well

ways together, the one with goggles that we've dubbed the 'medicine chest,' an

s?" inquired a pale, sickly-look

telling her friend that she intended to wear 'something very dre

gasped Valerie,

enter, when she stopped as if to permit every one to obtain a good view of her costume. Her bold

to feel herself a paragon of fashion, a model dressed to give the pupils of Gl

rabella, like a satellite, a

hat of the peacock moved Patricia to turn about that every one might see both front and back of her dress

kept droll little Arabe

la had made no n

and with a wild determination at least to have Patricia to speak to, she trotted ar

uld be awkward

ontent to wear it as it had been sent to her from New York, she would have

ouch of color, but not nearl

f every hue, and these she had tacked upon her slippers. Her hair was tied with a bright blue ribbon, and

y not a tint was missing, and the result was absolutely comical

, where she seated herself, and at once assumed a bored expression. Not the least interest in other pupils had she. She had come to t

m that she had left, and she wished that she might know

asant-looking

a regular rainbow?"

d for us to see her, just like a wax

might know what they

y herself!" remarked the

o thus far had not spoken, "that is not ver

m that you, who are always getting into

lack eyes

she snapped, "but whatever I do, I

her chum, Valerie Dare. "It takes al

llowed, Betty forgot

her dull sitting alone in a r

he hall in a burst of glory; ha

ranced with her appearance that they would foll

had been permitted to

of becoming acquainted with those who were to be her schoolmates for the year, but

n in the hall, and from time to time, crept to the wide doorway, peep

orothy and Nancy," she sai

eady, and Elf Carleton is telling a funny sto

and she's tickling Valerie's neck with it. Valerie doesn't dream what it is, and w

o see the fun, but she felt rather

proved too tempting, however, and

piano, Betty Chase was playing the prelude. Lina Danford handled

l. The two in the doorway stood quite still, and gave no evidence of pl

own dull fashion, ha

surely

bear to see or hear

to our room,"

ill play or sing," ventured A

d, even her whisper sho

have to let 'em. I couldn't stop them, an

hed out into the midst of the groups of listeners, and d

d than to leave in such haste, thereby dis

st she be angry, but she saw Miss Fenler's effort

she were between t

inly was not offending her, but she could not forget Patricia. What a temper she would be in when

ella reached their door. Softly she tried to open it so c

comfortably on the bed, and listening while on the other side of th

ut suddenly she remembered that Miss Fenler strode down the corridors every night after l

the door, pretended to be so sleepy that she could not at once fi

abella was

ust coming up the

hat she had been preparing for

ndress in the dark, but for goodness

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